\title{Supplement to The `Frequently Asked Questions'} \author{Robin Fairbairns} \begin{Article} \let\Qref\relax \newcommand\Qref[3][]{see question 89 in \BV{} 5.6} \input{dirctan} % This may be seen \noindent 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. \end{Article}