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+___________________
+The LAYOUTS package
+
+ The layouts package enables the display of various elements of a
+document's layout including: the general page layout; disposition
+of floats; layout of paragraphs, lists, footnotes, table of contents,
+and sectional headings; font boxes.
+Facilities are provided for a document designer to experiment with
+the layout parameters.
+
+
+______________
+Change History
+
+Version v2.6d (2009/09/02)
+- New maintainer (Will Robertson)
+
+Changes in version v2.6c (2004/10/25)
+- Privatised some internal macro names (no change in functionality)
+
+Changes in version v2.6b (2003/11/25)
+- Fixed some spelling and gramatical errors
+
+Changes in version v2.6a (2002/12/12)
+- Fixed problem with negative length in list layout
+- NO CHANGE TO THE MANUAL
+
+Changes in version v2.6 (2002/06/09)
+- Expanded page layout options
+
+Changes in version v2.5a (2002/03/24)
+- Fixed problem with footer size on page diagrams
+
+Changes in version v2.5 (2001/11/11)
+- Cleaner seperation between generic and designed layouts
+- Added controls over the appearance of pictures
+- Lengths may be printed using any TeX unit (except scaled point)
+
+Changes in version v2.4 (2001/04/30)
+- Added switch for drawing marginal notes
+- Added support for the memoir class page layout
+
+
+Changes in version v2.3 (1999/03/06)
+- Added tabulation of actual layout values.
+- Corrected the ToC layout.
+- Reduced the number of counters used.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------
+ Author: Peter Wilson (Herries Press)
+ Maintainer: Will Robertson (will dot robertson at latex-project dot org)
+ Copyright 1998--2004 Peter R. Wilson
+
+ This work may be distributed and/or modified under the
+ conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either
+ version 1.3c of this license or (at your option) any
+ later version: <http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt>
+
+ This work has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained".
+ The Current Maintainer of this work is Will Robertson.
+
+ This work consists of the files:
+README (this file)
+layouts.dtx
+layouts.ins
+ and the derived files:
+layouts.sty
+
+ The distribution consists of the following files:
+README (this file)
+layouts.ins (Source extractor file)
+layouts.dtx (Package source)
+layman.tex (LaTeX source for the User Manual)
+layman.pdf (User Manual in PDF)
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ To install the package:
+- run: latex layouts.ins (which will generate layouts.sty)
+- Move layouts.sty to a location where LaTeX will find it
+ (typically in a local texmf tree at /tex/latex/layouts)
+ and refresh the file database. See the FAQ on CTAN at
+ /help/uk-tex-faq or http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq for more
+ information on this.
+
+ To process the user manual:
+- run: latex layman (twice) and print for the user manual
+
+ For a printed version of the package source:
+- run: latex layouts.dtx
+ If you want an index run: makeindex -s gind.ist layouts
+- run: latex layouts.dtx
+- Print layouts.dvi for a hardcopy of the package source
+
+2004/10/25
+Peter Wilson
+
+