[Tex/LaTex] Twosided book with same page setup for every page (I want to use fancyhdr)

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Here is my problem:

Im writing my thesis using the book class. I want my thesis to be onesided (left and right margins of same size), but I would also like to use the fancyhdr package to give me chapter names in the pagehead of even pages and section names in the pagehead of odd pages.

Trying to do so together with the "oneside" option gives me a warning when compiling saying that the [E] option is useless when the book is "onesided".

Example code:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper, oneside]{book}
...
\fancyhf{} 
\pagestyle{fancy}
\headheight 20pt
\fancyhead[LE]{\rightmark}

Any good ideas would be much appreciated!
I already tried the geometry package, and it messes up a lot of the formatting in the book class.
I guess what I'm basically looking for is how to use the "twosided" option without LaTeX shifting every other page to a side.

Best Answer

I also recommend using the geometry package. However, if you insist on not "messing up" any formatting, you may temporarily enable the oneside class option, then use the \showthe command to find out the value of the lengths \evensidemargin (and \oddsidemargin) with this option, then switch back to twoside and change the two length values.

\documentclass{book}% Defaults to [twoside]

% \showthe\evensidemargin% Retrieve length value with class option [oneside]

% Apply length value of class option [oneside]
\evensidemargin 62pt
\oddsidemargin 62pt

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}

\blinddocument

\end{document}

(The blindtext package is only used to add some dummy text to the example.)

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[Tex/LaTex] Same header and footer for every page

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] How to make pages after the first come out correctly with fancyhdr

If you don't set a proper head height, fancyhdr reports the following:

Package Fancyhdr Warning: \headheight is too small (XX.Xpt): 
 Make it at least YY.YYYYpt.
 We now make it that large for the rest of the document.
 This may cause the page layout to be inconsistent, however.

As such, the newly-set \headheight will be the same throughout the document. To avoid this, I've created the following minimal document that sets a consistent head height, adding a vertical space (gap) on the first page to simulate a larger header:

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{fancyhdr,datetime,geometry,lipsum,graphicx}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%date in format Sunday, October 25, 2011
\usdate
\def\theday {\dayofweekname{\day}{\month}{\year}}
\def\mydate {\theday , \today}

%%%%%%%%%%return address%%%%%%%%%%
\def\myname         {Frank Thorne}
\def\mydeptname     {Department of Mathematics}
\def\myaffiliation  {University of South Carolina}
\def\mystreet       {1523 Greene Street}
\def\mycitystatezip {Columbia,~SC \quad 29208}
\def\myphone        {\textit{Phone:} (803)404-4057 (home)}
\def\office         {(803)777-4224}
\def\fax            {\textit{Fax:}(803)777-3783}
\def\email          {thorne@math.sc.edu}
\def\url            {\texttt{http://www.math.sc.edu/~thornef}} % NOTE: use $\sim$ for tilde
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%margins%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\geometry{
  margin = 1in,
  headheight = 13.5pt
}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt} %controls how the indentation of new paragraphs behaves
\setlength{\parskip}{6pt} %controls the space between paragraphs

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%letterhead%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\fancyfoot{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
\pagestyle{fancy}%

\fancypagestyle{firstpage}{
  \fancyhf{}% Clear header/footer
  %%%usc logo
  \fancyhead[L]{\raisebox{\dimexpr-\height+\baselineskip}[0pt][0pt]{\includegraphics[width=2.5in]{example-image}}}
  %%%%%%%%%%return address on right%%%%%%%
  \fancyhead[R]{\leavevmode\footnotesize\itshape%
  \begin{tabular}[t]{l@{}}
    \myname \\ \mydeptname \\
    \myaffiliation \\ \mystreet \\
    \mycitystatezip \\ \email \\[\normalbaselineskip]
    \mydate
  \end{tabular}}
}

\begin{document}

\thispagestyle{firstpage}

\vspace*{8\baselineskip}

\lipsum[1-10]

\bigskip

\hspace{.5\textwidth}%
\begin{tabular}{@{}l}
  Sincerely, \\[2\normalbaselineskip]
  Frank Thorne \\
  \textit{Assistant Professor of Mathematics}
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

I've used geometry to adjust the page layout - it's just easier/more convenient.

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