Hi, as promised I have now added the basic macros for galley formatting onto the web site. So this now can actually be used and you could apply the justification templates etc and put them to a test. you will find the following new files on www.latex-project.org/code/experimental/galley: galley2.dtx documented source of the low-level interface galley2.ins unpacker for galley2 and xhj xhj-test.tex a short test file playing around with justification templates. I will probably add some real applications (xinitials and xlists) making use of the galley stuff throughout tomorrow. hope this interface (now productive) spawns some further discussion. There are certainly a lot of open questions being posed in the file galley2.dtx --- so I hope to receive your comments to the mechanism in the next days good night frank