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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Footers on every page in LaTeX
Keywords: footers
Message-ID: <2502@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 22 Feb 90 10:10:16 GMT
References: <1990Feb21.152216.12541@granite.cr.bull.com>
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Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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In-reply-to: mandel@granite.cr.bull.com (Mark Mandel)

In article <1990Feb21.152216.12541@granite.cr.bull.com>, mandel@granite (Mark Mandel) writes:
 `I have to get footers on every page, including chapter-initial pages,
 `of a largish (>100pp.) document that I have just about completed in
 `LaTeX.  It would be sufficient for all of them to be identical -- it's
 `a piece of boilerplate, 4 words.  I'm using book style, and I don't
 `know Plain TeX.  Our local guru has given me some advice, but he too
 `is not familiar enough with Plain TeX to help me through this
 `situation.  The weirdest part is that it was working for a while,
 `though not on first pages of chapters.  Naturally, I'm not aware of
 `anything in the footer code changing interim.
 `
LaTeX switches to pagestyle plain on first pages of chapters. You can give
a \thispagestyle command on each chapter to change that.

Alternatively you can use my fancyheadings.sty which gives you very much
freedom to specify your headers and footers with a few simple commands. 

Get it from the clarkson archive or from ours:
ftp from sol.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5], directory pub/TEX/latexstyle, or
request from mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (send a HELP message first),
The files are fancyheadings.doc and fancyheadings.sty.
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