Standard headers

The header d.t.d. provides tags for customizing the headers and footers. The customization is based on the idea that we may specify a page text for every page. This page text can for instance be a running title or the name of the current section. The page text may depend on the parity of a page and appear in a different way for special pages like starts of new chapters. The following tags control the physical layout of different types of pages:

start-page

This tag, with the page text as its only argument, specifies the layout of the first page of a new chapter or section.

odd-page-text

Similar to start-page , but for the layout of ordinary odd pages.

even-page-text

Similar to start-page , but for the layout of ordinary even pages.

The following tags control the logical header-related actions to be undertaken, when specifying a title, an author, or when starting a new section.

header-title

A tag with a “title argument” which is used at the specification of the document title.

header-author

A tag with an “author argument” which is used at the specification of the document author.

header-primary

A tag with a “section name argument” which is used at the start of each new primary section ( i.e. chapter for book style, or section for article style).

header-secondary

A tag with a “section name argument” which is used at the start of each new secondary section ( i.e. section for book style, or subsection for article style).