> Arno wrote about fixltx2e and not fix-cm. And he is right: If loaded > after float fixltx2e overwrites the float definition of float: [...] I've just read the very interesting article in TUGBoat regarding Michiel Helvensteijn's `pkgloader' package, which should solve such issues in an elegant way. Let's hope that his package succeeds! http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pkgloader Werner