Comment 6 for bug 132399

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Norbert Preining (preining) wrote : Re: [Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

On Do, 27 Sep 2007, Christoph Lechleitner wrote:
> First, s/fancyheadings/fancyhdr/ does not help, the headings does not
> look correct then.

From the README:
| fancyhdr is 99% compatible with fancyheadings. The only incompatibility is
| that \headrulewidth and \footrulewidth and their \plain... versions are no
| longer length parameters, but normal macros (to be changed with
| \renewcommand rather than \setlength).

So if you change this the format should be the same.

> We and at least on other firm I know use fancyheadings in script-
> generated documents for automatic invoice prodution.
>
> And btw., with 37 I consider myself grown up.

Then why was such a rude language necessary??? I would have expected it
from a teen ...

> And yes, of course I can just copy fancyheadings.sty from elsewhere, but
> at the moment TeX in gutsy needs >1 minute for a one-page document that
> processes in 1 sec. on feisty.

??? That is interesting, and definitely worth analysing. Could it be
that the fonts have to be generated?

Do you have the cm-super fonts installed? If not, that could be the
problem. Send me a test document and I can take a look.

Best wishes

Norbert

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