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From: lmann@bigbootay.sw.stratus.com (Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: draft mode
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Date: 26 Sep 90 11:56:40 GMT
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In article <14574@rasp.eng.cam.ac.uk>, pi@eng.cam.ac.uk (Pablo Iglesias) writes:
> I'm sure that this has been discussed before but anyway, here it goes.
>  I want to  have a special mode that would be used when printing drafts
> of a document.  Ideally this would have bigger margins than usual, larger 
> interline spacing, and something on the header saying "draft" with the date.
> Any other useful features would also be helpful.

For bigger interline spacing, write a variant of \normaltext with
more interline spacing.

Putting the date and/or the draft number in the footer is very helpful.

Write a switch (like "dogalley") that uses your normaltext variant,
and redefines the \hsize, \hoffset, header and footer.

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