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my dear cyber-sibling stephan >Much of what passes for 'artistic license' >these days is blamed upon the Greek Muses. this sounds to my ears a tad critical or disparaging of my scribbles you are certainly welcome to your opinion as are we all but i don't recall asking for advice in that area i mentioned non-profit orgs or maybe consumer advocacy as potential 'consumers' of my skills relating to insight or editing got any hints in those areas? >Just what muse visits you as the patron of lower-case text? >Is it the beautiful Calliope (legends), >the fair Erato (poetry), >the shapely Euterpe (tragedy) >or perhaps the pensive Clio (history)? >Or is it a Muse I haven't remembered? i do believe that you've missed out some of the mythological greek muses but where did you get the idea mine was greek? i don't understand one word of that language but maybe this form of communication is beyond mere words however if she were greek i'd bet dollars to donuts she's thalia >The curmudgeonly ghost of S.J. Perelman whispers in my >ear . . . .or is it merely the wind whistling through my >auditory canals (from one side to the other)? i don't really understand your position here so maybe you had better tell me >Ease of typing without the shift key heh? Aha! It is clear >to me now - form over function. Well, why didn't you say so! i said that the shift key may be a part of the reason a 'muse' or other form of inspiration may be another part certainly and definitely the visual aspect draws me very strongly probably due to my design background i have realized fairly recently that i am more sensitive to visual stimuli than the average person call it artistic license call it obsession call it neatening whatever word processing has given me a new tool in terms of space-planning but with words instead of furniture i also have found recently that if i'm reading something that is quite 'dense' at the computer 'massaging' the phrases into this 'style' or whatever it is helps me to absorb the full meaning of the words i think the concept of 'massaging' or splitting up big blocks of text first occurred to me when i started posting news articles from nando.net a couple of years ago they tend to give every sentence its own paragraph and i wondered at the time if the reason might be for ease of reading [e.g. by news readers on tv since nando seem to act as news 'wholesalers'] >Okay, you can come in. well, thank you! i thought i was already here! janet 50/9