You can include a "format file" containing special commands for the presentation of pages. Often revues ask for this.
In order to do this, you create a file containing what you want and save it in the working directory  as
    format.pln if you use Plain TeX
    format.ams if you use AMSTeX
    format.ltx if you use LaTeX
This allows you to have different format files in different directories.
Of course you can put your own TeX commands in these format files.