This may not be either doable or worth the effort, but in doing markup samples for DTD documentation, I've started using CDATA marked sections to hold the examples and then breaking them to insert <b></b> pairs around parts of the example, e.g.: <pre> <![CDATA[<sometag> <more-markup> ]]><b><![CDATA[<this-is-bold/>]]</b><![CDATA[ </more-markup> </sometag>]]> </pre> In theory it should be possible for the editor to automatically adjust the marked section markup to allow the real markup within what was a single CDATA marked section. At the moment I have to bounce in and out of Author mode in order to adjust the highlighting in my examples. Not a big deal but it could be more convenient. Cheers, Eliot -- Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together" Main: 610.631.6770 www.reallysi.com www.rsuitecms.com