The everypage package

Warning

This package is now in legacy status. Functionality similar to that provided by this package is directly implemented in LaTeX since its 2020 Fall release. Do not use everypage in new documents and do not rely on it in new packages or classes of yours.

When running on a pre-2020-10-01 version of LaTeX, everypage will now fall back to everypage-1x, its own past code base.

When running on a modern LaTeX, everypage will strive to provide its legacy interfaces by using the newer LaTeX facilities. However, full equivalence is not possible and breakage may occur. Load everypage-1x in place of everypage if you really want to force usage of the old code base (that might keep working for a few more LaTeX release cycles).

Historic behavior

The everypage package extends LaTeX providing hooks to do actions on every page or on the current page. Specifically, actions are performed before the page is shipped, so they can be used to put watermarks in the background of a page, or to set the page layout. The package reminds in some sense bobhook by Karsten Tinnefeld, but it differs in the way in which the hooks are implemented, as detailed in the package documentation. In some sense it may also be related to the package everyshi by Martin Schroeder, but again the implementation is different.

The everypage package is copyright 2006, 2007, 2020. by Sergio Callegari <sergio.callegari@gmail.com>

It comprises this README.md file, as well as files

• everypage.dtx
• everypage.ins

To install the package, run LaTeX on the installation script everypage.ins and follow the instructions provided by the script itself.

Notes

This is version 2.0 of the everypage package, suitable for LaTeX releases post Fall 2020.

Version 1.2 might keep working for a few more LaTeX release cycles. It is now available as everypage-1x. It fixed a minor issue with the ordering of operations, in version 1.1.

Version 1.1 fixed a bug in version 1.0 that caused LaTeX to exceed its capacity or to hang. Such behaviour was particularly evident in conjunction with the draftwatermark package.

UPGRADE IS RECOMMENDED

License

Package everypage may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3c. This license is available at https://www.latex-project.org/lppl/lppl-1-3c/.

This work has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained".