fancyhdrheader-footer
Here is my file
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\cfoot{abc}
\begin{document}
ab
\end{document}
As I understand from this website, the cfoot command is supposed to produce a footer abc. But the file just has the page number 1 in the footer. What did I do wrong?
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:
\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.
Since you have to define the \headheight at the begining of the code within geometry package irredeemably, this will stablish that same height for the header throughout the document.
To change that, you can define a \newgeometry with the \headheight equal to 0pt at the begining of even pages, but you have to redefine your previous geometry in the next page again. This is a manual procedure, but I don't know another way to do that.
Here I post you some code. As you can see, I have defined two styles with \fancypagestyle, one for even pages and another one for de odd ones. If you want to disable the numbering of the pages, just remove the \fancyfoot and \renewcommand\footrulewidth lines inside each style.
\documentclass[12pt,twoside]{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage[a4paper,margin=2cm,includeheadfoot,headheight=44pt]{geometry}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\fancypagestyle{odd}{ %
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[OL]{COURSE}
\fancyhead[OR]{
\begin{tabular}{ c c }
NAME & NO \\
NAME1 & xxx \\
NAME2 & yyy \\
\end{tabular}
}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
}
\fancypagestyle{even}{ %
\fancyhf{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{odd}
\lipsum[1-2]
\newpage
\thispagestyle{even}
\newgeometry{margin=2cm,includefoot,headheight=0pt} %Just \includefoot
\lipsum[1-2]
\newpage
\thispagestyle{odd}
\newgeometry{margin=2cm,includeheadfoot,headheight=44pt}
\lipsum[1-2]
\end{document}
The first page is messed up because the
\headheightis by default12ptbut should be44ptin this case. Is there any way to calculate this automatically? I would like to avoid typing44ptmanually.
I don't know any way to avoid calculate this manually. Just compile your document and wait for the log message referring to the \headheight and set that lenght as minimum.
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