dvichop: http://www.tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2002-January/002186.html There seems to be a pytex.sourceforge.net (Python + TeX) project that hasn't released anything officially, but dvichop is in their CVS tree, and the rest of the project looks apropos. -tom ------------------------ tomfool at as220 dot org http://sgouros.com http://whatcheer.net