» My suggestion is to put a begin-page-hook to the output routine. aren't page styles precisely this? » It works very well. yeah, colors (or grey) too. » The only problem was where to execute the macro. I attached it to the » page style, but what happens if someone says "\thispagestyle ..."? Doesn' fancyhdr allow to redefine `standard' page styles? Or _you_ redefine standard page styles by simply adding a cs (empty by default) that will do the job? I thought latex2e user interface was more or less frozen, maybe your query should be taken into consideration for the architecture of latex2e* page templates? Thierry