Although I like Emacs, it doesn't do scripting with Arabic or Syriac AFAIK. But TeXShop does! And TeXShop supports a variety of complex regexp searches, etc. Kudos to Richard Koch et al.! -- United in adoration of Jesus, fr. michael gilmary, mma Most Holy Trinity Monastery 67 Dugway Road Petersham, MA 01366-9725 www.MaroniteMonks.org