Donald replied: > No, I don't; probably because you attempted to do ascii-layout with a > proportional font. Hmm, I thought I'd gotten this mailer set up to do plain text / ASCII---it's displaying this in a monospaced font as I type it.... > I suspect this isn't really hard to do with \halign, and a pre-defined > size or two. But \halign is in text mode, right? then I'd've had to add $ $ or \begin/end{math} for everything in it? That was one of the things which I was trying really hard to avoid. > For a true hairy experience, look at the tabularx package. I'm gradually working up to that sort of thing ;) Thanks! William -- William Adams, publishing specialist voice - 717-731-6707 | Fax - 717-731-6708 www.atlis.com