Hi, unfortunately Frank told us in his last mail that he vanishes for a few days to work on output routines. And my suggestion has to do with output routines. I should have posted this earlier. My suggestion is to put a begin-page-hook to the output routine. I suppose that everyone knows draftcopy. Some time ago I needed something like that but I wanted to use pdflatex. I considered to learn pdf to be able to use \pdfliteral. That's not very convenient. Finally I tried something totally different. I didn't expect that it works because it is too simple. I used the \rotatebox and \scalebox commands from the graphics package. It works very well. The only problem was where to execute the macro. I attached it to the page style, but what happens if someone says "\thispagestyle ..."? I think that it is a good idea if the LaTeX kernel would provide a hook (probably called "\AtBeginPage". I don't think that style programmers should patch the output routine. The hook should be at a place in the OTR where all the page layout parameters like margins of the current page are known, even if they are changed after the preamble. And, of course, it must be the very first thing beeing typeset on each page. If there would be such a hook, one could write something like draftcopy in a much more portable way and with NFSS2 access. Regards, Reinhard -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-751355 Berggartenstr. 9 D-30419 Hannover mailto:[log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------