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+\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} \ No newline at end of file