> I have a requirement to keep internal data associated with individual
words.
> These "words of interest" (WOI) will be inserted programmatically along
with
> a sort of "tag" or "reference" that I will use to identify the word as one
> of my WOIs.  Now, this data associated with a WOI must stay associated
with
> the WOI (and only the WOI) regardless of user actions including typing,
drag
> and drop, etc.  If the WOI is deleted, the data must also be deleted.  I
> have been trying to use bookmarks but I am having serious problems and the
> work-arounds are getting ridiculous.  Is there anything else that can be
> used for this that I may have missed?

> Here is what I have observed with bookmarks based on user actions,
relative
> to cursor and bookmark location:
>     "This is |[another] test"
>     (bookmark range matches "another" and cursor immediately bookmark)
>     User types "test "
>     Result - "This is [test |another] test"
>     Note: Same thing happens when I insert text programmatically.

> There are also similar problems related to deleting one WOI
programmatically
> before inserting another WOI and ending up with overlapped bookmarks.

> Any suggestions?