jonathan said:
>   Well, there is a subtle workaround... 
>   treat each line of your text as a tefield! 
>   It takes some shuffling in memory, but should be feasible...

ok, let's see ya do it, gnome-boy...          ;+)

give users the ability to easily apply formatting via "styles",
and you've started a super-duper desktop-publishing system
(read electronic book)...

-bowerbird

p.s.  the ability to control leading with ease, what a concept!