I appreciate that there are probably some problems with the dectalk express driver. Unfortunately, I do not have a dectalk express or any other dectalk for that matter to do testing with. The capitalization fix is probably not to difficult and may be fixable without one to test with. The mixed numbers and partial words on the other hand is one of those problems where everybody has their own idea how it should work and would be very difficult to test without a unit to play with. The default dectalk behaviour as I'm sure you all know is to spell all words attached to numbers which is not what most dectalk users want. So I suspect in addition to working on the problem you all should discuss what type of behaviour you would prefer and then maybe I can put something together for someone to test with. It'll be slow but without a unit that's the best I can do. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061