<tt>>I don't understand what you're talking about.  We don't have >anything like that in FriBidi!</tt> Ah yes, that was my retarded evil twin typing.  I hate it when he gets onto my computer!  The files that he was testing with contained examples showing how Arabic handwriting often has obviously misplaced dots.  For some reason he decided fribidi was generating those correction messages, when in fact it was really just printing out the documents.  *sigh* So far it looks like this does the trick. fribidi --nopad --nobreak --nomirror I've looked over a couple files side-by-side with ParsNegar and Word XP and they seem to match up so far, however there are some problems particularly with dates.  For example, on a RTL line the date "12/23/2004" becomes "2004/23/12".  Unfortunately these documents are littered with dates so this is a problem.  I'll keep playing with it and see if I can come up with anything, but dates have always been a headache for me. Ken Horan