fancyhdrheader-footer
I want to make my footer and header look like this beautiful apple manual.
I think, I should use the fancyhdr package. But, I need an example to see how I should use it in this case (for vertical lines). I have found a lot about horizontal line, but not vertical ones.
To replace the rules of fancyhdr, you can redefine \headrule and \footrule including just the solution at your question Two rules directly under each other
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lastpage} % number of last page
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\renewcommand\footrule{\begin{minipage}{1\textwidth}
\hrule width \hsize height 2pt \kern 1mm \hrule width \hsize
\end{minipage}\par}%
\renewcommand\headrule{
\begin{minipage}{1\textwidth}
\hrule width \hsize \kern 1mm \hrule width \hsize height 2pt
\end{minipage}}%
\lhead{Test}
\rhead{Section \thesection}
\lfoot{\today}
\rfoot{Page \thepage\ of \pageref{LastPage}}
\begin{document}
\section{Test}
headers and footers.
\end{document}
With the second example, I get the warning
Package Fancyhdr Warning: \headheight is too small (12.0pt):
Make it at least 46.54448pt.
We now make it that large for the rest of the document.
This may cause the page layout to be inconsistent, however.
Solution:
\usepackage[height=9in,width=7in,headheight=48pt,heightrounded]{geometry}
(or 46.6pt, I prefer a multiple of \baselineskip. The addition of heightrounded is not related to the problem, but it's better to always use it.
When the document class is article (one sided), geometry applies some heuristics for setting the unspecified lengths. Since you just specify the text height to 9in, it will divide the space at the top and bottom according to a 2:3 ratio; thus the space above is 0.8in.
The default value of \headsep is 25pt; it's the distance from the baseline of the header to the top of the text block. With a \headheight of 48pt, it makes 73pt, which is slightly more than 1 inch, so part of the header will disappear above the top of the paper.
Since you need 48pt for the header, you have to adjust also other parameters. Let's say you want 18pt (1/4 in) above the header and also a reduced \headsep, say 12pt. Then adding
top=78in,
will do, because 18+48+12=78. Of course, the text block will be shifted down.
Complete example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[
height=9in, % height of the text block
width=7in, % width of the text block
top=78pt, % distance of the text block from the top of the page
headheight=48pt, % height for the header block
headsep=12pt, % distance from the header block to the text block
heightrounded, % ensure an integer number of lines
showframe, % show the main blocks
verbose, % show the values of the parameters in the log file
]{geometry}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{} % clear all fields
\fancyhead[L]{Left Header \\ 2nd left header \\ 3rd left header \\ 4th left header}
\fancyhead[R]{Right Header \\ 2nd right header \\ \ \\ Skipped 3rd}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\fancyfoot[R]{\textit{Left footer}}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-20]
\end{document}
With showframe some hairlines will outline the main blocks, with verbose the computations will be shown in the log file.
The documentation of the geometry package is very extensive. Here is a link, but you can surely find it on your system (texdoc geometry from a command line).
Best Answer
For the head its very similar. Here, I used the
pictureenvironment to ensure the right positioning: