is it possible to define different \headerheight for head and foot respectively? For example, there is a logo image in the header which needs a large \headerheight and only text is in foot which needs a small \headerheight. Or does it have two variables to control the heights of foot and head respectively?
[Tex/LaTex] Define different heights for head and foot
fancyhdrheader-footer
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After compiling your document you will receive the following warning:
Package Fancyhdr Warning: \headheight is too small (12.0pt):
Make it at least 74.08003pt.
We now make it that large for the rest of the document.
This may cause the page layout to be inconsistent, however.
To correct \headheight, add the following line to the preamble:
\setlength\headheight{74.1pt}
Another option would be to use the background package to add the image at the desired position:
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{background}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\SetBgContents{\rule{360pt}{70pt}}% \includegraphics would be here
\SetBgAngle{0}
\SetBgPosition{current page.north}
\SetBgOpacity{1}
\SetBgScale{1}
\SetBgColor{black}
\SetBgVshift{-2.5cm}
\title{Title here}
\date{November 2011}
\author{Jesper Jensen}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\lipsum*[1-9]
\end{document}
If you're after moving \indexname down, you can try:
\smash{\raisebox{-2.5em}{\indexname}}
This will push \indexname down 2.5em (below the header rule) and remove any vertical height/depth distortion via \smash.
Here's a scaled-down version of the MWE:
\documentclass[8pt,b5paper,twocolumn]{extbook}
\usepackage{etoolbox}% http://ctan.org/pkg/etoolbox
\patchcmd{\theindex}% <cmd>
{\thispagestyle{plain}}% <search>
{\pagestyle{indexstyle}}% <replace>
{}{}% <success><failure>
\usepackage[top=2cm, headsep=0.4cm, bottom=1.5cm, left=1.5cm, right=1.5cm]{geometry}% http://ctan.org/pkg/geometry
\usepackage{fancyhdr}% http://ctan.org/pkg/fancyhdr
\usepackage{makeidx}% http://ctan.org/pkg/makeidx
\fancypagestyle{indexstyle}{%
\fancyhf{}% Clear header/footer
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}% 0.4pt header rule
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}% No footer rule
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\smash{\raisebox{-2.5em}{\indexname}}}% Index name below header rule
\fancyhead[C]{\textbf{\thepage}}% Page in footer, centred
}
\renewcommand{\indexname}{Index}%
\makeindex
\begin{document}
\index{abcdefgh} \index{ijklmnop} \index{qrstuvwx} \index{yzabcdef}
\index{ghijklmn} \index{opqrstuv} \index{wxyzabcd} \index{efghijkl}
\index{mnopqrst} \index{uvwxyzab} \index{cdefghij} \index{klmnopqr}
\index{stuvwxyz}
\printindex
\end{document}
The addition of etoolbox is to "fix" the theindex environment. It creates the entire Index, and doesn't allow one to modify the first page style or very much else. etoolbox is used to patch the environment and fix the page style to indexstyle for the first and following pages.
Best Answer
if you want to see your page layout with the given values, then print it: