header-footerpage-numbering
I have the following code I need to put the page number at the top of the page resulted in a diamond box. I would be grateful for any help or if you can indicate to me the code to generate it.
There is something I forgot, the page number should be on the left for the even pages and on the right for the odd pages.
You could use a package like fancyhdr or scrpage2 to customize header and footer.
Compile this example and look at header and footer of the pages with filler text:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\renewcommand*{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancyhf{}
\rhead{\thepage}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{plain}
\blinddocument
\end{document}
The commands and their usage are described in the fancyhdr manual.
In the standard document classes there are four predefined page styles; the following is a quote taken directly from the fancyhdr package documentation:
The default behaviour for the standard article, report or book document classes is to use the plain page style, so simply using the twoside class option won't give you the desired position for the page number.
If you want to change the default page style, you can use \pagestyle{headings}, or \pagestyle{myheadings} (and perhaps supply information for the header). Both options will give you, with the twoside option, headers containing the page numbers to the right on odd-numbered pages, and to the left on even-numbered pages.
If further customization is required, use a package such as titleps or fancyhdr to define your own page style. In any case, you will have to "activate" the page style by using the \pagestyle command.
A little example using titleps to define a new page style:
\documentclass[a4paper,twoside,titlepage,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{titleps}
\newpagestyle{mystyle}{
\sethead[a][b][c]{left}{center}{right}
\setfoot[a][b][c]{left}{center}{right}
}
\pagestyle{mystyle}
\begin{document}
test\clearpage test
\end{document}
A more realistic example: no footer, header for even-numbered pages: page number to the left, section number and title to the right; header for odd-numbered pages: subsection title to the left, page number to the right; all information with \small font size:
\documentclass[twoside]{article}
\usepackage{titleps}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate filler text
\newpagestyle{mystyle}[\small]{
\sethead[\thepage][][\thesection~\sectiontitle]{\subsectiontitle}{}{\thepage}
}
\pagestyle{mystyle}
\begin{document}
\section{Test Section}
\lipsum[1]
\subsection{Test Subsection}
\lipsum[1-20]
\end{document}
Best Answer
One option using the
fancyhdrandtikzpagenodespackages:If the horizontal rules are not to be of the same width: