Comment 13 for bug 132399

On Mi, 17 Okt 2007, Tjl wrote:
> I must agree with the above comments that fancyheadings.sty certainly
> should not be removed - backwards compatibility is of paramount

fancyheadings was latex209, it can be found on
 CTAN/obsolete/macros/latex209/contrib/fancyheadings.tar.gz
(note the obsolte AND latex209).

If you want to do this, a simple google whould have shown you that
fancyhdr is 99% compatible to fancyheadings.

> importance: I must be able to compile my old docs without jumping
> through hoops. Not including it will waste several peoples' time down

No need for hoops.

> Please do add back this file.

Will not happen. Put it into your TEXMFLOCAL if you need it so
desperately.

Don't forget: TeX is written in stone, LaTeX is, although slowly moving,
a moving target. You cannot expect that all documents from all times
will compile an all latex versions in the future.

Use plain tex for this.

Best wishes

Norbert

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