I want to customize the aspect of headrule and footrule in my document, using report class and titlesec.
Unfortunatly, my redefinition of \makeheadrule and \makefootrule is not taken into account for chapter pages.
Please find below a basic example with code and picture, the rule lines should be blue on both pages.
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[pagestyles]{titlesec}
\newpagestyle{normalStyle}
{\sethead{}{Header}{}\headrule
\setfoot{}{Footer}{}\footrule}
\pagestyle{normalStyle}
\newpagestyle{chapterStyle}
{\sethead{}{Header}{}\headrule
\setfoot{}{Footer}{}\footrule}
\pagestyle{chapterStyle}
\assignpagestyle{\chapter}{chapterStyle}
\renewcommand\makeheadrule{\color{cyan}\rule[-.3\baselineskip]{\linewidth}{0.4pt}}
\renewcommand\makefootrule{\color{cyan}\rule[\baselineskip]{\linewidth}{0.4pt}}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Some Chapter Title}
\lipsum
\end{document}
Best Answer
The problem is that
\headrule
calls\setheadrule
, which then redefines\makeheadrule
. This is done when the page style is set by\pagestyle
or\thispagestyle
(used for chapter pages). The same applies to\footrule
.Moving the redefinitions of
\makeheadrule
and\makefootrule
into the definitions for the page styles, after\headrule
and\footrule
, solves this problem.