[Tex/LaTex] How to add a horizontal line above the footer with fancyhdr

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How to add a horizontal line above the footer using fancyhdr, just like the line present below the header?

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Redefine \footrulewidth:

\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}% default is 0pt

To learn more about fancyhdr, you could either look into its documentation or at the respective chapter in the Wikibook LaTeX.

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Here's an example using the scrpage2 package from the KOMA-Script bundle.

\documentclass{report}

\usepackage[nouppercase,headsepline,footsepline,plainfootsepline]{scrpage2}
\automark{section}
\pagestyle{scrheadings}
\clearscrheadfoot
\ihead{(Document title)}
\ofoot[\pagemark]{\pagemark}% Optional argument controls chapter-starting pages
\ifoot[(Author) -- \headmark]{(Author) -- \headmark}

\renewcommand*{\footfont}{\normalfont\slshape}

\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}

\blinddocument

\end{document}

EDIT: Used the \automark command in order to display section headings.

[Tex/LaTex] How to remove the top horizontal bar in fancyhdr

There are various examples in the fancyhdr documentation of redefining the \headrulewidth:

\fancyhf{} % sets both header and footer to nothing
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
% your new footer definitions here

will do what you want.

To learn more about fancyhdr, you could either look into its documentation or at the respective chapter in the Wikibook LaTeX.

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