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From: S.P.Q.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: (LaTeX) changing header and footer when page is all figures
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Date: 3 Mar 91 17:39:22 GMT
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In article <16632.9103031525@cameron.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Sebastian Rahtz <S.P.Q.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk> writes:

   My publisher tells me that his designer expects me to have blank
   headers and footers when a page is entirely occupied by floats. Any
   suggestions from gurus on how should be most easily achieved?

Maybe I can be a baby guru. As with all other questions in the world,
its there in latex.tex if you look for long enough. Anyone think the
following has any flaws?

Sebastian
% if there are floats around
% then set pagestyle to be empty
\def\@tryfcolumn #1{\global\@fcolmadefalse \xdef\@trylist{#1}\xdef\@failedlist
   {}\begingroup \let\@elt\@xtryfc \@trylist \endgroup
    \if@fcolmade 
  \typeout{Page with floats and nothing else}
  \thispagestyle{empty}
\@vtryfc #1
\fi}