it took me longer than I thought to write some additional documentation but now I can proudly present the first real usage of the galley stuff (though the module actually predates the galley implementation; back then it did all the parshape handling manually in the template :-) you will find on www.latex-project.org/code/experimental the file xinitials.tgz (and the directory xinitials) it contains: xinitials.dtx the template definition, document interface ... xinitials.ins the usual unpacker xinitials-test.tex a test file to run it you also need the files from the directory galley (ie galley2 and xhj) hope you agree with me that playing with the initials is fun, though not really a very serious application. For that you'll have to wait for xlists.dtx. have fun frank