[Tex/LaTex] How to remove header and footer from contents page and list of figures

fancyhdrheader-footer

This is the code I've used for the header and footer. How do I remove header and footer from contents page and list of figures?

\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\rhead{\fontsize{10}{12}\selectfont \textit{\textbf{2014-2015}}}
\lhead{\fontsize{10}{12}\selectfont \textit{\textbf{ECG SIMULATION AND ACQUISITION}}}
\rfoot{\fontsize{10}{12}\selectfont \textit{\textbf{\thepage}}}
\lfoot{\fontsize{10}{12}\selectfont \textit{\textbf{Dept. of ECE, RNSIT, BANGALORE}}}

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One possibility is

\AtBeginDocument{%
  \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\thispagestyle{empty}}%
  \addtocontents{lof}{\protect\thispagestyle{empty}}%
}

in the preamble. If there are more than one page in the table of contents or list of figures you have to use \pagestyle{empty} additionally.

Example:

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\rhead{\fontsize{10}{12}\selectfont \textit{\textbf{2014-2015}}}
\lhead{\fontsize{10}{12}\selectfont \textit{\textbf{ECG SIMULATION AND ACQUISITION}}}
\rfoot{\fontsize{10}{12}\selectfont \textit{\textbf{\thepage}}}
\lfoot{\fontsize{10}{12}\selectfont \textit{\textbf{Dept. of ECE, RNSIT, BANGALORE}}}

\AtBeginDocument{%
  \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\thispagestyle{empty}}%
  \addtocontents{lof}{\protect\thispagestyle{empty}}%
}

\usepackage{blindtext}% dummy text
\begin{document}
%
\pagestyle{empty}
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
%
\clearpage
\pagestyle{fancy}
\Blinddocument\Blinddocument\Blinddocument\Blinddocument
\Blinddocument\Blinddocument\Blinddocument\Blinddocument
\begin{figure}
  \fbox{Figure}
  \caption{A figure}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

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If you use a KOMA-Script class

\AfterTOCHead{\thispagestyle{empty}}

removes the header and footer from the first page of table of contents and all lists that are controlled by KOMA-Script.

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You need to set the page style to plain after redefining it using fancyhdr's \fancypagestyle{plain}{...} command. This is described in the fancyhdr documentation (section 7 Redefining plain style, p 7-8):

\usepackage{fancyhdr,graphicx,lastpage}% http://ctan.org/pkg/{fancyhdr,graphicx,lastpage}
\fancypagestyle{plain}{
  \fancyhf{}% Clear header/footer
  \fancyhead[R]{\includegraphics[width=\linewidth,height=5pt]{example-image-a}}% Right header
  \fancyfoot[L]{Name Firstname - v1.0 \\  Date}% Left footer
  \fancyfoot[R]{\thepage\  / \pageref{LastPage}}% Right footer
}
\pagestyle{plain}% Set page style to plain.

This should set the page style to plain for the entire document, including the first page of \chapters.

If you wish to have certain chapters to have a different (empty, say) page style, you would have to set this manually. For the \tableofcontents though, this is a bit tricky, since using

\thispagestyle{empty}\tableofcontents

\tableofcontents\thispagestyle{empty}

would set it to empty either too early, or perhaps too late, depending on the choice. This is because of the construction of the command \tableofcontents (from report.cls - your document class):

\newcommand\tableofcontents{%
    \if@twocolumn
      \@restonecoltrue\onecolumn
    \else
      \@restonecolfalse
    \fi
    \chapter*{\contentsname
        \@mkboth{%
           \MakeUppercase\contentsname}{\MakeUppercase\contentsname}}%
    \@starttoc{toc}%
    \if@restonecol\twocolumn\fi
    }

Note that \tableofcontents executes \chapter*, which in itself initiates a page break via \clearpage (or \cleardoublepage, depending on your document class options, like openright). So one would have to insert the page style somewhere around the place where the ToC is being built... in this case, at \@starttoc{toc}. You can do this with an etoolbox patch (there are other ways as well):

\usepackage{etoolbox}% http://ctan.org/pkg/etoolbox
\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\tableofcontents}% <cmd>
  {\@starttoc}% <search>
  {\thispagestyle{empty}\@starttoc}
  {}{}% <success><failure>
\makeatother

Taking all of this into consideration, you might be after the following setup:

\documentclass[twoside,openright]{report}
\usepackage{fancyhdr,lipsum}% http://ctan.org/pkg/{fancyhdr,lipsum}
\usepackage{graphicx,lastpage}% http://ctan.org/pkg/{graphicx,lastpage}
\usepackage{etoolbox}% http://ctan.org/pkg/etoolbox
\fancypagestyle{plain}{
  \fancyhf{}% Clear header/footer
  \fancyhead[R]{\includegraphics[width=\linewidth,height=5pt]{example-image-a.pdf}}% Right header
  \fancyfoot[L]{Name Firstname - v1.0 \\  Date}% Left footer
  \fancyfoot[R]{\thepage\  / \pageref{LastPage}}% Right footer
}
\pagestyle{plain}
\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\tableofcontents}% <cmd>
  {\@starttoc}% <search>
  {\thispagestyle{empty}\@starttoc}
  {}{}% <success><failure>
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter{A chapter}\lipsum[1-5]
\end{document}

Of course, this could be changed (even improved) if you don't have a title, or if there was more information on your document structure.

Some references regarding the above usages:

What do \makeatletter and \makeatother do?
etoolbox documentation regarding command patching via \patchcmd (section 3.4 Patching, p 11)

Some other things to consider:

Using \linewidth if you wish to have a header image that spans the entire width of the text block (rather than 8cm).
Using the pageslts package which provides a VeryLastPage label, depending on whether or not you have unprocessed floats at the end of your report.

[Tex/LaTex] Create header with left, center, and right aligned items

Please note that (very nearly absolutely almost) all questions should include a Minimum Working Example (MWE) or Minimal Non-Working Example (MNWE), depending on whether your question concerns how to do something or how to resolve an error. An MWE is code for a minimal but complete document which compiles when copy-pasted into an editor. An MNWE is code for a minimal but complete document which produces the error on attempted compilation after copy-pasting into an editor.

Also, Memoir has an excellent manual and, if you are using this class, there is no substitute for reading the parts relevant to your document. Memoir makes many packages unnecessary - fancyhdr is only one of them. It is also necessary to do certain things in your preamble and not do others in order for its layout mechanisms to work correctly. Presumably, you are using it because it produces good-looking output, but it will not do this if you don't follow the instructions carefully.

Of course, if you get stuck, people will be happy to help. But they cannot read the documentation for you.

\documentclass{memoir}
\makepagestyle{mine}
\makeevenhead{mine}{even left}{even centre}{even right}
\makeoddhead{mine}{odd left}{odd centre}{odd right}
\makeevenfoot{mine}{even left}{even centre}{even right}
\makeoddfoot{mine}{odd left}{odd centre}{odd right}
\checkandfixthelayout
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\begin{document}
\kant[1-5]
\thispagestyle{mine}
\kant[6-10]
\end{document}

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