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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label fancyhdr</title>
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<h3>Alternative head- and footlines in LaTeX</h3>
-<p>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.
+<p>The standard LaTeX document classes define a small set of &lsquo;page
+styles&rsquo; which specify head- and footlines for your document (though
+they can be used for other purposes, too). The standard set is very
+limited, but LaTeX is capable of much more. The internal
+LaTeX coding needed to change page styles is not particularly
+challenging, but there&rsquo;s no need &mdash; there are packages that provide
+useful abstractions that match the way we typically think about these
+things.
<p>The <i>fancyhdr</i> package provides
simple mechanisms for defining pretty much every head- or footline
variation you could want; the directory also contains some
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<dt><tt><i>fancyhdr.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fancyhdr.zip">macros/latex/contrib/fancyhdr</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fancyhdr.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fancyhdr/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>KOMA script bundle</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script.zip">macros/latex/contrib/koma-script</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>memoir.cls</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir.zip">macros/latex/contrib/memoir</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/">browse</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>scrpage2.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script.zip">macros/latex/contrib/koma-script</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script/">browse</a>)
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<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fancyhdr">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fancyhdr</a>
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