Peter: > If LaTeX3 can support arbitrary areas on the page then your > suggestion of any number/location of head/foot areas is interesting. > On the other hand, the zero-sized picture method seems to provide an > adequate means of putting things at specified positions on the page. Then, let's imagine the following: a GUI (Perl/Tk, Python/Tkinter, Java/Swing... what you like) which will allow to draw the areas in the page and define their meanings -- page dependent and "flowing". Unfortunately, flow text areas must have the same width (well, if these areas contain only text one could devise a way to change the width by measuring the remaining space and then applying \parshape if necessary). While still limited (no text wrapping figures), it would make *a lot* easier to design more fancier layouts. Javier ___________________________________________________________ Javier Bezos | TeX y tipografia jbezos at wanadoo dot es | http://perso.wanadoo.es/jbezos/ ........................................................... CervanTeX http://www.cervantex.org