I agree w/ Gabby completely. When I want to look, or want my students to look, at TEI through CSS-colored glasses, I use a browser. When I use oXygen, I want (or want my studnets to) see pointy brackets. (Which isn't to say that Author mode is useless, but I don't want it as the default for anything, let alone TEI. :-) JC> However, this didn't really answer the question I was asking JC> (which was not how do I change this for me), but whether the JC> default for TEI as shipped with oXygen should be text rather than JC> author and how to change that (if we decided this was a better idea). GB> FWIW, I *do* think this would be a better idea. I don't relish GB> the idea of starting every TEI training session with an GB> explanation on how to turn off default Author mode in Oxygen. GB> But others may have different priorities?