> > Code like this has been lying around here for a while. Find below my > > bophook.sty and a test file that marks the boundaries in DIN letters. if we have to have something for 2e, then i would far rather it were a package. > I have actually done something like this completely without hooks, > just by putting a box of zero size containing fold marks and letterhead > into the header, where the there are some negative skips that are > calculated from the page dimension parameter, so that the "letter > background" is independent of the class file or class options. > > Not exactly pretty, but can be done and works. > I suppose one could even make this a package... but you're _not_ doing it without hooks: as i said last night, the page header and footer are hooks themselves (though they don't actually call themselves that). robin