Hello Sheryl: You can force line breaks in a number of various ways if you want to insert formating characters in the texts. ~s will skip a line and ~e will place nfbtrans into poetry mode which treats each line as a line to be either terminated or if it is longer than a braille line to wrap and indent the new line. The manual covers these characters in detail. You could also write Randy directly at n8kl at insightbb.com, he is the author. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061