[comp.text.tex] draft mode

pi@eng.cam.ac.uk (Pablo Iglesias) (09/26/90)

I'm sure that this has been discussed before but anyway, here it goes.

 I want to  have a special mode that would be used when printing drafts
of a document.  Ideally this would have bigger margins than usual, larger 
interline spacing, and something on the header saying "draft" with the date.
Any other useful features would also be helpful.

Thanks in advance,

Pablo
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lmann@bigbootay.sw.stratus.com (Mann) (09/26/90)

In article <14574@rasp.eng.cam.ac.uk>, pi@eng.cam.ac.uk (Pablo Iglesias) writes:
> I'm sure that this has been discussed before but anyway, here it goes.
>  I want to  have a special mode that would be used when printing drafts
> of a document.  Ideally this would have bigger margins than usual, larger 
> interline spacing, and something on the header saying "draft" with the date.
> Any other useful features would also be helpful.

For bigger interline spacing, write a variant of \normaltext with
more interline spacing.

Putting the date and/or the draft number in the footer is very helpful.

Write a switch (like "dogalley") that uses your normaltext variant,
and redefines the \hsize, \hoffset, header and footer.

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voros@physics.monash.edu.au (Joe Voros) (10/01/90)

pi@eng.cam.ac.uk (Pablo Iglesias) writes:
>  I want to  have a special mode that would be used when printing drafts
> of a document.  Ideally this would have bigger margins than usual, larger 
> interline spacing, and something on the header saying "draft" with the date.
> Any other useful features would also be helpful.

For a collection of very useful macros, very well-commented, and including
the above feature, try TeXsis, a TeX format for physics developed by Eric
Myers and Frank Paige.  It is available via anonymous ftp from
emx.utexas.edu.  Both Unix and VMS setups are avaliable from there.

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