[Tex/LaTex] \fancypage border to surround header and footer

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I am trying to create a page border that encapsulates the header and footer not just the body of a TeX document.

Here is what i've got:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}

\usepackage[a4paper,vmargin={20mm,20mm},hmargin={20mm,20mm}, includehead, includefoot]{geometry}
\usepackage{fancybox}

\begin{document}

\fancypage{\setlength{\fboxsep}{0pt}\fbox}{}

Document text goes here...

\end{document}

When I take out the includehead and includefoot tags the border stays at 2cm on all sides but page numbers are still on the outside of the border. When I include these tags page numbers stay on the outside and the border on top/bottom is no longer 20mm. I theorise that this is due to header/footer. Any pointers?

Best Answer

try this \fancypage{}{\fbox}

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[Tex/LaTex] Custom header/footer rules (fancyhdr?)

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

MWE

\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}

[Tex/LaTex] How to add horizontal line after header and before footer

Your easiest approach here would be to include the fancyhdr package and set the header/footer rule widths using \renewcommand:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}% http://ctan.org/pkg/fancyhdr
\pagestyle{fancy}% Change page style to fancy
\fancyhf{}% Clear header/footer
\fancyhead[C]{Header}
\fancyfoot[C]{Footer}% \fancyfoot[R]{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}% Default \headrulewidth is 0.4pt
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}% Default \footrulewidth is 0pt
\begin{document}
Here is some text.
\end{document}

Headers and footers are simultaneously cleared using \fancyhf{}, and individually set using \fancyhead[<pos>]{<stuff>} and \fancyfoot[<pos>]{<stuff>}. See the fancyhdr documentation.

Modifying the colour of the header/footer rules is a bit more tricky, since fancyhdr doesn't supply this modification by default. etoolbox can be used to update the two rule macros \headrule and \footrule to insert the colour as needed. They are defined as follows:

\def\headrule{{\if@fancyplain\let\headrulewidth\plainheadrulewidth\fi
    \hrule\@height\headrulewidth\@width\headwidth \vskip-\headrulewidth}}

\def\footrule{{\if@fancyplain\let\footrulewidth\plainfootrulewidth\fi
    \vskip-\footruleskip\vskip-\footrulewidth
    \hrule\@width\headwidth\@height\footrulewidth\vskip\footruleskip}}

It is clear that the horizontal rule is drawn using \hrule, so we can patch these commands and insert \color{<colour>} just before drawing it by means of the following convenient helper macros:

\usepackage{etoolbox,fancyhdr,xcolor}% http://ctan.org/pkg/{etoolbox,fancyhdr,xcolor}
% \patchcmd{<cmd>}{<search>}{<replace>}{<success>}{<failure>}
\newcommand{\headrulecolor}[1]{\patchcmd{\headrule}{\hrule}{\color{#1}\hrule}{}{}}
\newcommand{\footrulecolor}[1]{\patchcmd{\footrule}{\hrule}{\color{#1}\hrule}{}{}}

This allows you to use \headrulecolor{<colour>} or \footrulecolor{<colour>} in order to change them individually. The above patch is standard for etoolbox, so see the etoolbox documentation on how \patchcmd works. Here's a complete MWE:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{etoolbox,fancyhdr,xcolor}% http://ctan.org/pkg/{etoolbox,fancyhdr,xcolor}
% \patchcmd{<cmd>}{<search>}{<replace>}{<success>}{<failure>}
\newcommand{\headrulecolor}[1]{\patchcmd{\headrule}{\hrule}{\color{#1}\hrule}{}{}}
\newcommand{\footrulecolor}[1]{\patchcmd{\footrule}{\hrule}{\color{#1}\hrule}{}{}}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}% Clear header/footer
\fancyhead[C]{Header}
\fancyfoot[C]{Footer}% \fancyfoot[R]{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}% Default \headrulewidth is 0.4pt
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}% Default \footrulewidth is 0pt
\headrulecolor{red!70}% Set header rule colour to 70% red.
\begin{document}
Here is some text.
\end{document}

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