I know LaTeX just to the point of making simple documents and modifying simple characteristics of a document's layout. Now I'm creating a class for a kind of document in order not to have to copy a huge preamble in every document, and I don't know to achieve what I want to do. First of all, the class inherits from the article
class, uses otf fonts so I'm compiling with XeLaTeX, and uses the fancyhdr package.
I want to specify the fancyhdr
headers inside the .cls
file because they're all going to have the same style, so I would like to include in the .cls
file the lines:
\lhead[<even output>]{<odd output>}
\chead[<even output>]{<odd output>}
\rhead[<even output>]{<odd output>}
What's inside, though, would have to be parameters that would be specified in the .tex
file, like the document's title, or the author's name, or other stuff. How could I pass this kinds of arguments to the .cls
file. If a general solution is given (in order to learn LaTeX besides being able to do what I want), I would very much appreciate it too.
Thank you very much.
EDIT:
As it can be seen in the article class file article.cls
the above parameters can be called via \@author
, \@title
and so on. The below answer by Christian answers what I asked in the comments, and shows how to create different parameters in the class file that could be defined from the .tex
file.
Best Answer
The class
The class driver file: