Not to belabor it too much, but in my previous message, I forgot to add an example of my idea of a really helpful tutorial approach. (I hate it when people say they want something good, but can't be specific!) It is the page at
http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~zoonek/LaTeX/ I don't even speak French, but you don't need babelfish to figure out what this guy is talking about. I look at a stored local copy of his metapost page very frequently, and some of the others as well. -- Mick McQuaid, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 520-621-4074 office / voice mail