[Tex/LaTex] Header on even or odd pages

double-sidedheader-footer

Hi everyone I have been trying to create a different header for even or odd pages where I want to see the name of the section and the name of subsections. This is what I have done but it is not working.

\usepackage{fancyhdr}    
\makeatother

\usepackage{babel}
\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{Roman}

\renewcommand{\thesection}{\Roman{section}}    

\section{Introduction}    
\newpage

\renewcommand{\thesection}{\arabic{section}}    
\setcounter{section}{0}

\pagenumbering{arabic}    
\pagestyle{fancy}

\fancyhf{}    
\fancyfoot{}    
\fancyhead[RO,LE]{\thepage}    
\fancyhead[LO]{\small\nouppercase\leftmark}    
\fancyhead[RE]{\small\rightmark}    

\section{First Section}    
\newpage     
\subsection{First subsection}    
\newpage        
\subsection{Second subsection}    
\newpage       
\section{Second Section}
\newpage     
\subsection{First subsection}    
\newpage    
\subsection{Second subsection}

\end{document}

This is pretty much my example, I would like to see something like this: On even pages the name of the section, and on odd pages the name of the subsection, but I am having the same result always. Only the name of the section appears, and the numeration is not located according with the kind of page (even or odd).

What else do I need to add or erase?.

Best Answer

Your MWE seems to give what you are asking for if you add \documentclass[english, twoside]{article} to the beginning. The twoside option is necessary in order to have different even and odd sides.

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[Tex/LaTex] Header on odd pages

Since you have to define the \headheight at the begining of the code within geometry package irredeemably, this will stablish that same height for the header throughout the document.

To change that, you can define a \newgeometry with the \headheight equal to 0pt at the begining of even pages, but you have to redefine your previous geometry in the next page again. This is a manual procedure, but I don't know another way to do that.

Here I post you some code. As you can see, I have defined two styles with \fancypagestyle, one for even pages and another one for de odd ones. If you want to disable the numbering of the pages, just remove the \fancyfoot and \renewcommand\footrulewidth lines inside each style.

\documentclass[12pt,twoside]{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage[a4paper,margin=2cm,includeheadfoot,headheight=44pt]{geometry}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\fancypagestyle{odd}{ % 
\fancyhf{} 
\fancyhead[OL]{COURSE}
\fancyhead[OR]{
    \begin{tabular}{ c c }
        NAME  & NO  \\
        NAME1 & xxx \\
        NAME2 & yyy \\
    \end{tabular}
    }
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt} 
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
}

\fancypagestyle{even}{ %
\fancyhf{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}  
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
}

\begin{document}

\thispagestyle{odd}

\lipsum[1-2]

\newpage

\thispagestyle{even}
\newgeometry{margin=2cm,includefoot,headheight=0pt} %Just \includefoot

\lipsum[1-2] 

\newpage

\thispagestyle{odd} 
\newgeometry{margin=2cm,includeheadfoot,headheight=44pt}

\lipsum[1-2]  

\end{document}

The first page is messed up because the \headheight is by default 12pt but should be 44pt in this case. Is there any way to calculate this automatically? I would like to avoid typing 44pt manually.

I don't know any way to avoid calculate this manually. Just compile your document and wait for the log message referring to the \headheight and set that lenght as minimum.

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