I now have updated the xor module far enough to make xo-pfloat compile again with reasonable output; due to some kernel updates a bunch of routines got broken (and the balancing interface is still in a state of flux (though not needed here so that is ok). What doesn't work properly is the final page-layout as far as running headers/footers and placement of the text area is concerned---for the moment I "fixed" that by simply moving everything far enough to the left so that it stays within a normal page. so next things to tackle are - revisiting the pagelayout interface - finishing implementing balancing (it works in cases without floats but rather badly handles the situation when floats are present) frank