Hi Trevor,

Thanks very much for your detailed reply.

You've made me re-think the cmd+i thing because you're right, in an application that does text, you expect italics. I still reflexively reach for it for inspectors, so I can only conclude that I don't spend much time in text editing apps. It's a strange one. Anyhow, I take that criticism back.

I'm really glad to hear that you'll be having another look at how you expose the context sensitive functions, the modal annotation interface and the text entry. They are the really important things. I still prefer native Cocoa, but I can live without it when an apps is special enough. I use FireFox because of it's superb plugins after-all.

Just to clarify - the main thing for me is to have an equivalent to the code or tt tags in HTML, something to switch to a fixed-width font for key words. I don't really care what font that would be, just as long as it's fixed-width. I don't think people want to be wasting their time choosing the actual fonts. If you guys pick one good fixed width and one good variable width font and let me flip between them with a button like the one for bold or not bold, it'd be a huge improvement for me.

Thanks again for taking the time to post such a detailed, open, and honest response - I really appreciate it. I'm also looking forward to watching your product mature as you release more versions.

Bart.