Arthur Reutenauer wrote: ... greek ... greek ... new beta \defineremapper[babelgreek] \remapcharacter[babelgreek][`a]{\alpha} \remapcharacter[babelgreek][`b]{\beta} \remapcharacter[babelgreek][`c]{\gamma} \remapcharacter[babelgreek][`d]{OEPS} \starttext [\startbabelgreek a b c some stuff here \blank[big] oeps b d \stopbabelgreek] [\babelgreek{some stuff here}] \stoptext i can think of a more clever mechanism (have some ideas) but not now (in the middle of something else) for arthur ... [] are skipped for mojca ... this beta also fixes your accent problem (if she's in the mood for source browsing ... interesting solution) for luigi ... working on a variant xml parser ... now loading 40 meg in 5 seconds for taco ... i made your example into a configurable one Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------