I hope I'm missing something, because these commands don't seem to interact flawlessly. What I do now is \startlinenumbering \startfiletyping Kenneth Brown recent conduct has been rather unacceptable in my humble opinion. It is, perhaps, not a coincidence that his last name is the name of the colour of poo. \stopfiletyping \stoplinenumbering This causes an overfull hbox though: Overfull \hbox (17.62482pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 196--196 [] | \hbox(10.41603+4.05064)x0.0 .\glue(\leftskip) 17.62482 .\hbox(10.41603+4.05064)x0.0 ..\rule(10.41603+4.05064)x0.0 ..\glue 0.0 plus 1.0fil minus 1.0fil .\penalty 10000 .\glue(\parfillskip) 0.0 plus 1.0fil .\glue(\rightskip) 0.0 .etc. The lines don't go beyond even half the width of the normal paragraph. Am I doing this wrong in some way? nikolai -- ::: name: Nikolai Weibull :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka ::: ::: born: Chicago, IL USA :: loc atm: Gothenburg, Sweden ::: ::: page: www.pcppopper.org :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 ::: main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}