Interesting... I might take another go at it then. To be honest, the playing around I did with LyX made me think that it would be fine for what I was looking fo

Interesting... I might take another go at it then. To be honest, the playing around I did with LyX made me think that it would be fine for what I was looking for, which was essentially "nicely formatted books", where "books" was a definite over-exaggeration of what I can truly expect the outcome to be. I can appreciate the separation that you are going for, but I also have to wonder how much time you spend in LaTeX? If I were writing something that was worthy of LaTeX, it would probably average to less than an hour a week. I'm not sure if the effort is worth it for me. Again, to be completely honest. Whereas if I was doing a lot of writing that I expect to be read, I could imagine the investment being worth it. I look at like the way I looked at HTML formatting: I knew how to do the markup, but the WYSIWYG editors got me where I needed a lot faster. Having said that, I now find myself handcoding divs and spans and then using more CSS... so maybe that is the argument I need to read up on it! Well, lots to think about anyway. Thanks!