comma Soma I see that we will be enemies. Very well. To the semicolons I go; to em dashes (or other such dashes) and parentheses – those staples of additional thinking – I will turn. 231204 ... raze could it be a browser issue? i've noticed some things (like curly quotation marks, and apostrophes, and sometimes even the em_dash) are prone to turning into odd symbols with firefox, but there's nothing amiss when i'm using opera or chrome or safari. 231204 what's it to you? who go blather from