Dear gang: I am typesetting a journal this week, including Arabic, and of course I'm running into problems. I'm separating these into individual mails. Some of the problems are related to the e-TeX extensions, but my present project can't wait for the e-Omega project to be completed (3 cheers to Giuseppe!) so I hope Hans will be willing to help me fix these. Some of you have much more experience typesetting journals; in what follows please feel free to suggest better ways of doing things. Thnx in advance Idris