I'm a Tech Writer by day and use Adobe FrameMaker (on Win2k) for the books, manuals, and lesser instructions and notes that I write. I also use ACDSee for the quick, fairly basic image manipulations that I do (mostly editing screenshots for inclusion in the various documents). I know Steve mentioned emacs and Xemacs in the weblog. I'm wondering if anyone out there has used both Frame and emacs and what your relative experiences have been. I'm using FrameMaker 7 at home as I work on my first novel ( because I can change document properties in one place and have them update immediately across the entire document, and because it's what I'm used to). Regards, johne (phy) cook wisconsin, usa personal blog: http://breezeway.blogspot.com aerie blog: http://aeriepress.blogspot.com/ stormfort list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stormfort/ "Almost any act of (creative) expression is an act of courage. Whenever you write (something) and you show it to someone else, it's an act of courage because it's your life, it's who you are and you're laying it out on the table and you're either going to be rejected or accepted." Terry Scott Taylor _________________________________________________________________ Send instant messages to anyone on your contact list with MSN Messenger 6.0. Try it now FREE! http://msnmessenger-download.com