:::::Wow the other languages feature is really cool, I didn't know about that, thanks for pointing it out. Your point about the usability is well made. I do understand your concern and like you I strive to make things transparent for the reader and the editor. In the end I make the call slightly different; Editing is still easy afterall if an editor clicks on any of the sub-headers she does not even see that she is in a column. If one ignores just the first few commands editing the entire article also does not require any understanding of the columns. For reading I am convinced that an orderly column is better than white spaces in the middle of the article and the text bouncing in between the edge of the screen and the side of the graphics. That said, I wish I knew how to limit the size of the image column to the the width of the image.