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\author{Robin Fairbairns}

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I promised, in \BV{} 5.6, that I would attempt to provide regular
updates of the list of questions and answers published in that
edition.  However, as one might have guessed, there have been no
responses to my suggestion that you, our membership, submit questions
to be answered \dots{}

Fortunately, I had made provision for this eventuality.  I rather
surprised myself to find that that we hadn't answered the following
question.  I answered it (yet again) on \Newsgroup|comp.text.tex|
today, and speculated in my answer that it was possibly the
\emph{most} frequently asked question of all (apart from those that
can be answered with the terse `read the \verb|***| manual' that
so often appears on Usenet).

\Question{\upshape\bfseries 66a\quad Alternative head- and footlines
  in \LaTeX{}}

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.

The package is found in directory \CTANref{fancyheadings} and provides
simple mechanisms for defining pretty much every head- or footline
variation you could want; the directory also contains some (rather
good) documentation and one or two smaller packages.  Fancyheadings
also deals with the tedious behaviour of the standard styles with
initial pages (\Qref{}{Q-ps@empty}), by enabling you to define
different page styles for initial and for body pages.
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