___________________ The LAYOUTS package The layouts package enables the display of various elements of a document's layout including: the general page layout; disposition of floats; layout of paragraphs, lists, footnotes, table of contents, and sectional headings; font boxes. Facilities are provided for a document designer to experiment with the layout parameters. ______________ Change History Version v2.6d (2009/09/02) - New maintainer (Will Robertson) Changes in version v2.6c (2004/10/25) - Privatised some internal macro names (no change in functionality) Changes in version v2.6b (2003/11/25) - Fixed some spelling and gramatical errors Changes in version v2.6a (2002/12/12) - Fixed problem with negative length in list layout - NO CHANGE TO THE MANUAL Changes in version v2.6 (2002/06/09) - Expanded page layout options Changes in version v2.5a (2002/03/24) - Fixed problem with footer size on page diagrams Changes in version v2.5 (2001/11/11) - Cleaner seperation between generic and designed layouts - Added controls over the appearance of pictures - Lengths may be printed using any TeX unit (except scaled point) Changes in version v2.4 (2001/04/30) - Added switch for drawing marginal notes - Added support for the memoir class page layout Changes in version v2.3 (1999/03/06) - Added tabulation of actual layout values. - Corrected the ToC layout. - Reduced the number of counters used. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Author: Peter Wilson (Herries Press) Maintainer: Will Robertson (will dot robertson at latex-project dot org) Copyright 1998--2004 Peter R. Wilson This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c of this license or (at your option) any later version: This work has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained". The Current Maintainer of this work is Will Robertson. This work consists of the files: README (this file) layouts.dtx layouts.ins and the derived files: layouts.sty The distribution consists of the following files: README (this file) layouts.ins (Source extractor file) layouts.dtx (Package source) layman.tex (LaTeX source for the User Manual) layman.pdf (User Manual in PDF) ----------------------------------------------------------------- To install the package: - run: latex layouts.ins (which will generate layouts.sty) - Move layouts.sty to a location where LaTeX will find it (typically in a local texmf tree at /tex/latex/layouts) and refresh the file database. See the FAQ on CTAN at /help/uk-tex-faq or http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq for more information on this. To process the user manual: - run: latex layman (twice) and print for the user manual For a printed version of the package source: - run: latex layouts.dtx If you want an index run: makeindex -s gind.ist layouts - run: latex layouts.dtx - Print layouts.dvi for a hardcopy of the package source 2004/10/25 Peter Wilson