Am Sun, 1 Jun 2014 21:48:10 +0200 schrieb Arno Trautmann: >> Imho fixltx2e should be loaded like fix-cm before documentclass to >> avoid such problems. > How would you then treat packages that require fixltx2e and are loaded > at a later point? (As in your code example?) Where is the problem? If fixltx2e has already been loaded then it won't be loaded again. Try it out: \RequirePackage{fixltx2e} \documentclass{article} \usepackage{float} \usepackage{fontspec} \begin{document} \begin{figure}[H] blub \end{figure} \end{document} -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/