> Sorry, I should have made myself clearer: genuine <tt> (typewriter style) > markup. I think there's a need for both. Can you justify it a bit better? IMO, <tt> is like <bold> -- it's presentation tagging, not content tagging. Note that I think that *this* and **this** should correspond to <emph> and <strong> or vice versa, not <bold> and <italic>... --david