Hi. As Chris Rowley (from the latex-project.org) has suggested to me I'll sending my last two mails (seperately) to this list ... I've tried to use xinitials in one of my recent projects (with several packages loaded). I experienced some strange behavior. I used a test file TEST.TEX: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- %FORMAT: LaTeX \documentclass[a4paper]{book} \usepackage{Winawer} \input{xinitials.sig} \setlength{\overfullrule}{0.3cm} \begin{document} \setcounter{page}{30} \setboolean{printermarks}{true}\cropmarks \setboolean{statusinformations}{true} \setboolean{baselinegrid}{false} \setcounter{Diagramm}{1} \setcounter{ADiagramm}{1} \setcounter{gamenotationno}{1} \chapter{Zur Geschichte} \ExtendedInitial*[ initial-font = \fontfamily{mtlr}\fontseries{m}\fontshape{n}\fontsize{69}{69}\selectfont, parshape-list = {0pt,0pt,0pt,0pt}, v-adjust = 0pt, h-adjust = -10pt, text-sep = 2pt,] {\textcolor{hks17}{N}}[\textcolor{hks17}{och}] in der Mitte des 19.~Jahrhunderts galt die Wahl der französischen \mbox{Verteidigung} hauptsächlich als Versuch, der umfangreichen Theorie der offenen Spiele nach |1. e4 e5| zu entkommen: In der damaligen »Eröffnungsbibel«, dem Handbuch von \textsc{Bilguer}\Index{Bilguer} von 1843 stehen etwa 300~Seiten über mögliche Spielanfänge nach |1. e4 e5| ungefähr 40~Seiten mit dem gesamten Rest gegenüber! Die Züge |1. ... e6| und |1. ... c5| fallen hier unter die Gattung der »unregelmäßigen Anfänge« -- bemerkenswerterweise werden beide(!) Züge als Französisch benannt, »da sie von den französischen Spielern besonders häufig angewendet werden«. [...] \label{Dokumentende} \end{document} ---------------------------------------------------------------------- As you can see a macro file winawer.sty is loaded which itself loads the following packages: \usepackage{type1cm} \usepackage{pstcol} \usepackage[dvipsone]{graphicx} \usepackage{calc} \usepackage{ifthen} \usepackage{fancyhdr} \usepackage[LY1]{fontenc} \usepackage{JensonMM} \usepackage{pifont} \usepackage{multicol} \usepackage[cam,a4center,axes]{crop} \usepackage{array} \usepackage{colortbl} Everything compiled without an error except that \label{Dokumentende} is not recognized (not written to the .aux file). (Why?) When trying to use it with the complete source file I get ***different*** typeset output (on later pages). Also the index is now typeset with justification, which is not the case without xinitials (of course with a bunch of underfull \hboxes). I don't know why xinitials produces different output? I will update my TeX system and LaTeX2e and I will look at this test again. Ulrich Postscriptum: It's the same with the new TeX system and actual LaTeX2e files. And now I'm experiencing a new strange behavior as my baseline grid setup (via PSTricks) moved about 2.5in to the left! PPS: I know there're many packages loaded! I think I will try to reduce this in my test file as much as possible. -- Art & Satz Ulrich Dirr Arnimstraße 9 81369 München Germany/Deutschland -- fon (+49 89) 743 30 60 fax (+49 89) 743 30 61 email [log in to unmask] -- -=*:-)