we're undergoing a standards change that will require some extensive editing of some custom scripts/lisps to relfect the new layer names. but I began to wonder if the ones we use for annotating could be all replaced with simpler routines. basically i need a routine to recognize an object's layer and create and/or set the current layer to the same name with "-text" as a suffix. example: a line is drawn on layer EX-LINE. to annotate the line the user selects the object and the routine will create a layer "EX-LINE-TEXT" if it doesn't exist, or set it current if it does exist. (i should then be able to add the necessary annotation commands to the routine) any help or direction to something already written would be appreciated. it will take me forever to kludge the whole thing up on my own.