This should not use the e-a sign. It's a rare form - usually it's hyphenated - but I did find one example in my Web-Braille books: %ort-sleev$ %irt & 8 wideawake hat1 & -- Lee Maschmeyer <lee_maschmeyer at wayne.edu> "Be kind to your fur-bearing friends, For a skunk may be somebody's brother." --Fred Allen