Thanks for the note. My first response was no italics! ;) At least they didn't have any on the Ulysses demo I tried. There was an emphasis, as I recall, but it wasn't available in full screen. I do like their full screen and clean interface, though. Two of my concerns are: the 'forever' factor in releasing ver 2, and it's pricey. (I haven't check in a couple of months, so things might've changed.)

I do have Copywrite, which is similar (the full screen is very nice), but frankly, I'm stuck using Word, which is the only program I know about that lets me create macros. (There's something splendidly Luddite-ish about using a fancy word processor to recreate key commands from a 25-year-old program. I still can't do some of them, but quite a few.)

The problem is that I want the cursor control keys and other basic editing functions where I don't have to take my hands off the "home" keys. If I can keep my fingers on the keyboard, I can do a lot of writing in automatic mode. When I have to look down and either find the arrow keys or find the home keys after using the arrow keys (or delete or the function keys), then I (sometimes) lose that intuitive thread.

And to keep from entirely hijacking this thread - the Neo comes so close (nice and basic) but I can't change the editing keys or add to them. I've tried to keep the little iBook I bought as clean as possible, but I noticed that both DevonthinkPro and Endnote have snuck on there. That's something that wouldn't happen with a Neo. (Unless you count Inspiration Outliner...)