[Tex/LaTex] Removing header on chapter page

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I am using the fancyhdr package where from what I understand the default is no header on the chapter pages, but I still have the header displaying the section name on all my chapter pages. I would like to still have the footer with the page number, but not the header.

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markboth{#1}{}} % set the \leftmark
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead{}
\fancyhead[RO, LE]{\leftmark} % 1. sectionname
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\fancypagestyle{plain}{
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
}

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Since \chapter uses \thispagestyle{plain}, the \fancypagestyle{plain} redefinition must disable the \fancyhead[RO,LE]{...} from fancy style, i.e. say \fancyhead{} in \fancypagestyle{plain}{...}.

\documentclass{book}

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markboth{#1}{}} % set the \leftmark
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead{}
\fancyhead[RO, LE]{\leftmark} % 1. sectionname
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
\fancyhead{}%
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
}

\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}


\chapter{First}
\section{First section}
\blindtext[10]
\chapter{Second}

\section{First section in 2nd chapter}
\blindtext[10]


\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Header not displaying correctly on chapter page due to subsection

We must give more structure to the right mark emitted by the \chapter command; so we do

\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{%
  \markboth{\chaptername\ \thechapter}
           {\noexpand\firstsubsectiontitle}}

The \subsectiontitle macro will be defined by the \subsection command; of course it won't work if no subsection starts in the first page:

\renewcommand{\subsectionmark}[1]{%
  \markright{#1}\gdef\firstsubsectiontitle{#1}}

Here's an example; notice some changes I've made to your code. For instance I've redefined the \sectionmark command so it doesn't emit any mark.

The solution to the numbering problem of subsection is to \setcounter{secnumdepth}{1}.

\documentclass{report}

% PACKAGES
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{lastpage} % Allows referencing of the last page to allow footer to read: "Page [Current page] of [Total number of pages]."
\usepackage{comment} % Allows comments of the type: \begin{comment}This text is commented out.\end{comment}
%\usepackage[colorlinks=true]{hyperref} % Turns table of contents and labels into clickable links. Commented out to speed up compiling.
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Allows use of ">" symbol.
\usepackage{lmodern} %Not really sure what this is for.

% FORMATTING
% Header and Footer
\pagestyle{fancy}

% Allows calling chapter and section names in headers and footers.
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{%
  \markboth{\chaptername\ \thechapter}
  {\noexpand\firstsubsectiontitle}}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{}
\renewcommand{\subsectionmark}[1]{%
  \markright{#1}\gdef\firstsubsectiontitle{#1}}
\newcommand\firstsubsectiontitle{}

% General Header and Footer
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[L]{\DocumentAuthor} 
\fancyhead[R]{\BookAuthor>\leftmark>\rightmark}
\fancyfoot[C]{Page \thepage\ of \pageref{LastPage}}

% Chapter Header and Footer
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
  \fancyhf{} \fancyhead[L]{\DocumentAuthor}%
  \fancyhead[R]{\BookAuthor>\leftmark>\rightmark}%
  \fancyfoot[C]{Page \thepage\ of \pageref{LastPage}}%
}

% Header/Footer Separation-line Width
\renewcommand\headrulewidth{0.4pt} 
\renewcommand\footrulewidth{0.4pt}

\setlength\parindent{0pt} % Remove paragraph indentation.

% NAME AND CLASS SECTION
\newcommand{\DocumentAuthor}{Author Name}
\newcommand{\BookAuthor}{Book Author}

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{1}

%DOCUMENT
\begin{document}

\tableofcontents
\thispagestyle{empty}

\chapter{Title of Chapter 1}
\section{Sample Problems}
\subsection{Title of Subsection 1}
\pagebreak{}
\subsection{Title of Subsection 2}
\subsection{Title of Subsection 3}
\pagebreak{}
\subsection{Title of Subsection 4}

\end{document}

With this code the first subsection in the page will be put in the header.

What's \noexpand\firstsubsectiontitle doing? The \markboth and \markright commands must record the current values of the counters and titles, so their arguments are passed through an \edef; this, in the case of the first chapter and English language, would set a left mark with value Chapter\ 1. If we said only \firstsubsectiontitle in the second argument, it would be expanded leaving a wrong right mark because it would be empty for the first chapter and would contain the last subsection in the preceding chapter!

So we say "dear TeX, don't expand \firstsubsectiontitle right now, but only when you'll set the header."

Actually, if there can be more than one subsection in the chapter pages, a different solution should be used:

% Allows calling chapter and section names in headers and footers.
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{%
  \markboth{\chaptername\ \thechapter}
           {\noexpand\firstsubsectiontitle}%
  \global\firstsubsectionmarktrue}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{}
\renewcommand{\subsectionmark}[1]{%
  \markright{#1}%
  \iffirstsubsectionmark
    \gdef\firstsubsectiontitle{#1}%
  \fi
  \global\firstsubsectionmarkfalse}
\newif\iffirstsubsectionmark
\def\firstsubsectiontitle{}

so that the first subsection would set the mark.

[Tex/LaTex] Insert footer on chapter page but NOT header

I am not entirely sure that I understand what you want but the code below:

has a page footer on EVERY page with a line and the page number on the right-hand side
has your page headers except on the "first" pages

Rather than using fancyhdr etc I define the page headers and footers directly. When you type \pagestyle{mine} what happens is that latex executes the command \ps@mine, if it exists. The actual page headers and footers are stored in \@oddhead, \@evenhead, \@oddfoot and \@evenfoot so you just need to set these appropriately. There is also a \ps@empty command for clearing all of the current page headers and footers.

Anyway, this is what I have done:

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,twoside]{report}
\usepackage{mwe}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\usepackage[foot=4em]{geometry}% need to make the footer bigger

\makeatletter
\def\my@foot{\hbox to \textwidth{\rlap{\rule[2ex]{\textwidth}{0.4pt}}\hfill\thepage}}
\def\ps@mine{\ps@empty% clear all current headings and footings
    \let\@oddfoot\my@foot\let\@evenfoot\my@foot
    \def\@oddhead{Contents\hfill\includegraphics[height=22pt]{example-image-a}}
    \def\@evenhead{\includegraphics[height=22pt]{example-image-a}\hfill Contents}
}
\def\ps@plain{% this seems to be the "first" page for report.cls
    \ps@empty\let\@oddfoot\my@foot\let\@evenfoot\my@foot
}
\makeatother
\pagestyle{mine}

\begin{document}
  \tableofcontents
  \section{A}\lipsum \section{B}\lipsum \section{C}\lipsum \section{D}\lipsum
\end{document}

Perhaps the most painful part of this game is working out which pagestyle controls the first pages of chapters etc. For report.cls this seems to be \ps@plain, so I have changed it in order to get your line in the footer on the "first" pages as well. (For amsart and friends I think it is \ps@firstpage...).

If this isn't quite what you want then please explain clearly what the problems are and I will try and fine-tune.

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