I want to create a fancy header/footer rule in Exam document class. I have tried what is at https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/89569/custom-header-footer-rules-fancyhdr and Custom header/footer rules (fancyhdr?) but they seem not to work in Exam document class. Any help please
[Tex/LaTex] Double line for header/footer rules
examfancyhdrheader-footerrules
Related Solutions
The first page in a chapter (and also of the list of figures, which internally uses \chapter) use the plain pagestyle. So you need to redefine it: add
\fancypagestyle{plain}{
\fancyhead{}
\fancyhead[L]{A}
\fancyhead[C]{FANCY}
\fancyhead[R]{HEADER}
\fancyfoot{}
\fancyfoot[L]{A}
\fancyfoot[C]{FANCY}
\fancyfoot[R]{FOOTER}
}
after the similar settings you already do.
If the two page styles are really identical, then saying
\makeatletter
\let\ps@plain\ps@fancy
\makeatother
will make calling the plain page style equivalent to calling the fancy page style. With the method of redefining the plain style described above you get much more flexibility.
To replace the rules of fancyhdr, you can redefine \headrule and \footrule including just the solution at your question Two rules directly under each other
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lastpage} % number of last page
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\renewcommand\footrule{\begin{minipage}{1\textwidth}
\hrule width \hsize height 2pt \kern 1mm \hrule width \hsize
\end{minipage}\par}%
\renewcommand\headrule{
\begin{minipage}{1\textwidth}
\hrule width \hsize \kern 1mm \hrule width \hsize height 2pt
\end{minipage}}%
\lhead{Test}
\rhead{Section \thesection}
\lfoot{\today}
\rfoot{Page \thepage\ of \pageref{LastPage}}
\begin{document}
\section{Test}
headers and footers.
\end{document}
Best Answer
exam.clsuses its own mechanism for headers/footers. To modify the default rules in headers, you can patch\@fullhead(for the first page) and\run@fullhead(for other pages) to use whatever you choose, instead of the default\hrule. A little example using a double rule:In the case of footers, one has to patch
\@fullfootand\run@fullfootand invoke\runningfootrule,\firstpagefootrule.