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The LAYOUTS package

    The layouts package enables the display of various elements of a
document's layout including: the general page layout; disposition
of floats; layout of paragraphs, lists, footnotes, table of contents,
and sectional headings; font boxes.
Facilities are provided for a document designer to experiment with
the layout parameters.


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Change History

Version 2.6f (2026/11/06)
- Add \marginparwidth to \pagevalues (gh/1)
- Improve printed length accuracy (gh/31)

Version v2.6e (2026/10/17)
- Add alt text to picture environments
- Tag code documentation
- Tag user documentation
- New maintainer (LaTeX Project)

Version v2.6d (2009/09/02)
- New maintainer (Will Robertson)

Changes in version v2.6c (2004/10/25)
- Privatised some internal macro names (no change in functionality)

Changes in version v2.6b (2003/11/25)
- Fixed some spelling and grammatical errors

Changes in version v2.6a (2002/12/12)
- Fixed problem with negative length in list layout
- NO CHANGE TO THE MANUAL

Changes in version v2.6 (2002/06/09)
- Expanded page layout options

Changes in version v2.5a (2002/03/24)
- Fixed problem with footer size on page diagrams

Changes in version v2.5 (2001/11/11)
- Cleaner separation between generic and designed layouts
- Added controls over the appearance of pictures
- Lengths may be printed using any TeX unit (except scaled point)

Changes in version v2.4 (2001/04/30)
- Added switch for drawing marginal notes
- Added support for the memoir class page layout


Changes in version v2.3 (1999/03/06)
- Added tabulation of actual layout values.
- Corrected the ToC layout.
- Reduced the number of counters used.

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  Author: Peter Wilson (Herries Press)
  Maintainer: LaTeX Project
  Copyright 1998--2004 Peter R. Wilson
  Copyright 2026--present LaTeX Project

  This work may be distributed and/or modified under the
  conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either
  version 1.3c of this license or (at your option) any
  later version: <https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt>

  This work has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained".
  The Current Maintainer of this work is the LaTeX Project.

  This work consists of the files:
README (this file)
layouts.dtx
layouts.ins
  and the derived files:
layouts.sty

    The distribution consists of the following files:
README          (this file)
layouts.ins     (Source extractor file)
layouts.dtx     (Package source)
layman.tex      (LaTeX source for the User Manual)
layman.pdf      (User Manual in PDF)

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    To install the package:
- run: latex layouts.ins (which will generate layouts.sty)
- Move layouts.sty to a location where LaTeX will find it
  (typically in a local texmf tree at /tex/latex/layouts)
  and refresh the file database. See the FAQ on CTAN at
  /help/uk-tex-faq or http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq for more
  information on this.

    To process the user manual:
- run: lualatex layman (twice) and print for the user manual

    For a printed version of the package source:
- run: lualatex layouts.dtx
  If you want an index run: makeindex -s gind.ist layouts
- run: lualatex layouts.dtx
- Print layouts.pdf for a hardcopy of the package source

2004/10/25
Peter Wilson