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author | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900 |
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committer | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900 |
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diff --git a/usergrps/uktug/baskervi/6_1/bv61faq.tex b/usergrps/uktug/baskervi/6_1/bv61faq.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a8881dd8ef --- /dev/null +++ b/usergrps/uktug/baskervi/6_1/bv61faq.tex @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +\title{Supplement to The `Frequently Asked Questions'} +\author{Robin Fairbairns} + +\begin{Article} +\let\Qref\relax +\newcommand\Qref[3][]{see question 89 in \BV{} 5.6} + +\input{dirctan} % This may be seen + +\noindent +I promised, in \BV{} 5.6, that I would attempt to provide regular +updates of the list of questions and answers published in that +edition. However, as one might have guessed, there have been no +responses to my suggestion that you, our membership, submit questions +to be answered \dots{} + +Fortunately, I had made provision for this eventuality. I rather +surprised myself to find that that we hadn't answered the following +question. I answered it (yet again) on \Newsgroup|comp.text.tex| +today, and speculated in my answer that it was possibly the +\emph{most} frequently asked question of all (apart from those that +can be answered with the terse `read the \verb|***| manual' that +so often appears on Usenet). + +\Question{\upshape\bfseries 66a\quad Alternative head- and footlines + in \LaTeX{}} + +The standard \LaTeX{} document classes define a small set of `page +styles' which (in effect) specify head- and footlines for your +document. The set defined is very restricted, but \LaTeX{} is capable +of much more; people occasionally set about employing \LaTeX{} +facilities to do the job, but that's quite unnecessary~--- Piet van +Oostrum has already done the work. + +The package is found in directory \CTANref{fancyheadings} and provides +simple mechanisms for defining pretty much every head- or footline +variation you could want; the directory also contains some (rather +good) documentation and one or two smaller packages. Fancyheadings +also deals with the tedious behaviour of the standard styles with +initial pages (\Qref{}{Q-ps@empty}), by enabling you to define +different page styles for initial and for body pages. +\end{Article}
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