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Hi,

Using some neat tricks Stefan Kottwitz nicely demonstrated how to get fancy chapter headings here:

http://texblog.net/latex-archive/layout/fancy-chapter-tikz/#comment-271

Now I would like to extend the idea to making fancy section and subsection headings.

I want to make the section heading a ...

Hi,

I would like to find a way of making a band of colour across the footer of my document. I'd like to be able to change the colour on a per chapter basis. Any idea how I might do that?

Thanks,

Jason

Hi Nicola,

Thanks for your suggestion. I ended up using the xtab package and along with your code, has solved the problem.

Thanks again for all your help.

Jason

Hi Nicola,

Thanks for your example, it works pretty well.

I am now encountering a strange problem where the thumbtabs and the footer page numbers on the page sometimes don't appear when I use the longtables package. It seems to have problems when the longtable spans more than one page.

I have ...

Hi Nicola,

Thanks for that.

I tried your code out and it shifts the boxes in the thumbtab index to the right when its on the right hand page, and to the left on the left hand page which is good.

It does not seem to have any effect on the thumbtabs further throught the document though.

Also is ...

Hi Nicola,

That's exactly what I was after. Thanks.

Jason

I spoke to soon. It does work very well for a single sided document howerver I am using:

\usepackage[twoside,a4paper,margin=1cm,tmargin=0.5cm,bmargin=1.5cm]{geometry}

in my document. The twoside option appears to cause a problem in ...

Hi Nicola,

That's exactly what I was after. Thanks.

Jason

Hi,

I am trying to use flowfram thumbtabs with the crop package.

I can generate the thumbtabs without problem however is there a way to get the thumbtabs to bleed beyond the page boundary, so they can be cropped off and hence run right to the edge of the final printed page?

Here is a sample ...