James Kilfiger writes: > On another matter, how will collection instances be used? Will > environments select a collection. Would it be useful if \begin{myenv} > implictly called \UseCollection{myenv}. You could use this to prohibit > sectional headings in floats, or \item outside of lists. Would this be > within the expected use of collections. must confess we don't know that yet. we don't know eve if collection instances are such a good idea in the first place. it is something that will sort itself out probably pretty soon if we have played around a bit with them. i personally think that envs setting the collection instances is not the way to go. when i played around with ists i tried doing this but it didn't felt right. as i said i don't know frank