**************** INPUT **************** The second line of a paragraph isn't usually short at all and should be flagged as a warning by gutcheck as long as there are sufficient numbers of lines in the file to stop it deciding that there are too many short lines to bother reporting, which means that I have to waffle on until we have at least 10 lines of text. The last line of a paragraph, however many lines it contains, is usually short. **************** EXPECTED **************** and Line 2 column 3 - Short line 3?