Frank wrote -- > > I didn't explain clearly. What we have now is that > > > > (a) For people with GUI interface like Scientific Word, the software has > > to deal with the ambiguity as best it can. > > and what I am saying is that they can't, really, deal with it. they have to > provide a math markup and there is no way to identify something as "this > should be math" automatically. so there is no real solution to the problem > that people by mistake leave the needed markup out. YEs and in fact this applies to a lot of the clever stuff that SW does to help the author. It works 99% of the time ... magnificent for a Windows application:-). chris