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All those groupings which are not hold together by a second or third control that, on the visual side, is rendered as a box, are called soft groups. Soft groups are formatted text or elements that are both, gathered under a header and separated by caesuras. We separate soft groups from each other by using blank space. The advantage of doing so is, we need less code as we do not use an additional control. Second, we have a quite interface as we do not use group boxes with borders or HTML elements like horizontal rulers. The disadvantage of this method is, we have to waste a lot of space to clearly separate single groups from each other.
Use a caesura of 15 pixels to separate soft groups from each other.

Soft groups

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Title and Text can be assigned clearly.

Example of soft groups

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It is possible to use a two column layout like in this example. If doing so, a caesura of 30 pixels should be used.

Caesura between a two column layout

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Whenever we decide to use a layout of this kind, we do not use more then two columns. When using two columns we can decide between dividing the available space in proportions of:

1/2 and 1/2
or: 2/3 and 1/3
or: 1/3 and 2/3.

Multiple column layout

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