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From: wjw@ebs.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: LaTeX Page Footings?
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Date: 31 Jan 91 10:27:12 GMT
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In article <73140001@hpcllld.cup.hp.com> knish@hpcllld.cup.hp.com (Doreen Kawanishi) writes:
>I would like to know how to set and use page footings (i.e. text to appear
>on the bottom of each page) in LaTeX.
>
>Any help/suggestions would be appreciated!
>
>Doreen

I've been using the following style for many of years. 

Willem Jan.

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% Three part head and foot macros. 1/87
% Lance Berc
% Olsen & Associates    mcvax!unizh!olsen!lance@seismo.css.gov
% Seefeldstrasse 233
% CH-8008 Zurich
     
% How users can set the head and foot text.
\def\lhead#1{\gdef\@lhead{#1}} \def\lfoot#1{\gdef\@lfoot{#1}}
\def\chead#1{\gdef\@chead{#1}} \def\cfoot#1{\gdef\@cfoot{#1}}
\def\rhead#1{\gdef\@rhead{#1}} \def\rfoot#1{\gdef\@rfoot{#1}}
     
% Initialization of the head and foot text.
% By default the page number is at the center of the foot and everything
% else is empty.
\def\@lhead{} \def\@lfoot{}
\def\@chead{} \def\@cfoot{{\rm \thepage}}
\def\@rhead{} \def\@rfoot{}
     
% Put together a three part header or footer given the left, center and
% right text. The \lap commands put the text into an hbox of zero size,
% so overlapping text is not detected (it just overlaps).
\def\@threepart#1#2#3{\rlap{#1} \hfil {#2} \hfil \llap{#3}}
     
% Swap the notices on odd and even pages when twosided.
\def\ps@threepartheadings
    {
    \def\@oddhead{\@threepart{\@lhead}{\@chead}{\@rhead}}
    \def\@oddfoot{\@threepart{\@lfoot}{\@cfoot}{\@rfoot}}
     
    \if@twoside
    \def\@evenhead{\@threepart{\@rhead}{\@chead}{\@lhead}}
    \def\@evenfoot{\@threepart{\@rfoot}{\@cfoot}{\@lfoot}}
    \else
    \def\@evenhead{\@threepart{\@lhead}{\@chead}{\@rhead}}
    \def\@evenfoot{\@threepart{\@lfoot}{\@cfoot}{\@rfoot}}
    \fi
    }
     
% Default page style
\ps@threepartheadings
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