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Doug, There probably isn't really much need for all minerals with standardized descriptions. Once you get past the 600 or 1,000 "common" minerals, you can't really identify them with the hand specimen physical data anyway, and most of the people who will need a reference to keithconnite or boggsite will be after the actual scientific data. (I think) I haven't decided yet. It will have to be one that works on both Mac and DOS/Windows and should. And, considering my incredible wealth, not cost too much to own a copy of each and have a version to produce stand alone run time product. I am open to consideration of opinions and suggestions. One thing to consider, is that I would like the database to sell below $50, considering the relatively limited mineral collect/mineralogist market, one can't spend too much time setting up the front end, so it has to be easy to program. Not something where one has to basically write code. Yeah, subscripts is a problem. One solution I considered was to sell it with a particular font designed for it. Lanny