{header-footer} is about customizing headers and footers, i.e., choosing a page style for certain pages (e.g. empty, plain, headings) and (for the styles employed) placing information like the current section title and page number. Popular packages are {fancyhdr}, {scrpage2}, and {titleps}.
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How to remove headers and footers for pages between chapters?
To ensure that a new chapter starts on a right-hand page, the book class (and the report class with the option openright) will insert blank pages between chapters if necessary. However, these pages ...
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How can I display a short chapter name in the header and a long chapter name in the ToC?
I am writing a book and one of my chapter has a very long title. As it can't be displayed correctly on the top of even pages, I provide a "short title name" via the \chapter[short title]{long title} ...
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2answers
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How to customize headers and footers?
I'd like to modify the contents of my headers and footers - e.g., to display the current chapter and/or section title or to change the pagination alignment. How can I do that? I've noticed the ...
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5answers
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How can I add “page # of ##” on my document?
I want to add a footer to my document displaying the current number out of total number of pages. How do I do that?
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2answers
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Creating letters with zero-margin colored headers, in addition to the regular letterhead
I'm trying to use LaTeX for creating corporate letters. What I have found is that there are many tools to write letters, but they are mostly focused on letters of more personal nature rather than ...
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Using fancyhdr to create an image based header and footer
I'm trying to generate a latex report (via Sweave and R) where the header of the document is an image that covers everything (including the top/left/right page margin) and the footer covers everything ...
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Add a new empty page
I have a .tex file which is like my main,
\documentclass[spanish]{article}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{graphicx}
...
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How to remove the top horizontal bar in fancyhdr?
When using fancyhdr, how do you remove the top horizontal rule?
I do not want a header at all, just a footer.
This is what I do now:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
...
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How to translate and rotate the heading of landscaped pages?
Objective
How to change the heading of landscaped pages from
to
?
Minimal Code
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[a5paper,hmargin=3cm,vmargin=5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{lscape,lipsum}
...
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votes
3answers
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How to set colored ruled margins for different pages?
I want to write a LaTeX document, and I want to have document rules (colored margins distinguishing sections and/or even/odd pages).
Here is a model of what I have in mind:
How can this be ...
11
votes
2answers
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Chapter Title in rotated vertical box at the margin
I am using the book document class.
I would like to have Chapter name (Interduction, Results, Discussion, ...conclusion...) to appear in every page, in the right side small vertical (color filled) box ...
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votes
1answer
625 views
Non rectangular page geometry
I am interested in using non-rectangular page geometries for my flipbook idea (in fancyhdr with image and flowing text).
The page geometry that I'm after is that the text has a little rectangle ...
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votes
3answers
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When do I need invoke \clearpage manually?
I am not sure whether invoking \clearpage is necessary or redundant at many places in my input .tex files.
Here I will ask you, in what condition is invoking \clearpage necessary?
I hope I get a ...
8
votes
2answers
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Chapter title in header too long
How can I format the header on every page displaying the title of the current chapter? In one of my chapters the title is too long so it is running out of the page.
Here's a minimal example of my ...
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votes
2answers
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How to change header to list first section on page and not last section
The standard use of header/footer is to display the chapter/section information, which normally begins on a new page. What I would like to do is to have the header show the first question that is on a ...
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5answers
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How to get part name in LaTeX ?
Actually I am using the fancyhdr package, and trying to put the current part name in the right header.
I know that \rightmark and \leftmark are used to represent the current section and chapter ...
5
votes
1answer
366 views
\pagestyle{ruled} adds superfluous text in glossary
I'm writing my thesis using the memoir package, using \pagestyle{ruled}, and have created glossaries for a glossary and an acronym list. The resulting pdf, contains the superfluous text "Glossary" and ...
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votes
3answers
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page number position
I am working on a long document in LaTeX with documentclass book.
I need the page number to always be in the upper right corner of each page, even if that page is the first page of a chapter (right ...
7
votes
1answer
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Table of contents with page style empty
How can I make produce a table of contents by \tableofcontents with page style empty?
It doesn't work with \thispagestyle{empty} or \pagestyle{empty}.
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votes
1answer
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header and footer of the first page of every chapter
It maby be weird, I want to make header and footer for every page including the first page of each chapter, how can I do this?
4
votes
1answer
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How to set the chapter style in report class
When a chapter starts, it appears as, e.g.,
Chapter 1
Introduction
and it then in upper left corner of each page in the chapter the name appears as
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
But I want that ...
3
votes
2answers
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Header, footer and font customization
How can I create a default header, footer and customize the font of my LaTeX document?
I wanted something like this:
Default book title Chapter name
...
10
votes
4answers
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How do I insert text into the footline of a specific slide in Beamer?
I'm trying to insert references into a beamer footline. These references are different for each slide, so I cannot include them in the footline template - unless there is then some way to later define ...
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votes
1answer
3k views
Suppress Fancy header and footer on first page only.
How to suppress the fancy header and footer on the first page? On other pages, they should be visible.
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votes
4answers
980 views
How I can automatically add a page if the total number of pages is odd?
I need automatically add a blank page (also without document header, numbering and footer) at the end of the document, if the total numbers of pages is odd. How I can do that?
And preferably without ...
11
votes
1answer
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How to get a colored box as the header?
I want to produce this particular template in LaTeX. With no page numbering, and rectangles in colours in a a4paper.
16
votes
1answer
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Indexing an interval of words on top of every page
Friends, I'm curious on how to do the following in LaTeX:
Dictionaries have two words on the top of each page, meaning the interval of words to be found on that specific page, e.g.,
In the figure, ...
4
votes
2answers
283 views
Chapters and verses of current page in header
This question is linked to my other titlesec question
Does any one know how to add the current segment location at the top of any particular page.
What I need is the reference at the top of a ...
16
votes
3answers
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How to add “cont.” section title to the top of pages?
I have a document that contains few small sections. What I would like is if the section name was repeated at the top of page body (not in the header), if new section doesn't start on that page. And ...
5
votes
5answers
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Place a TikZ picture on every page
I am looking to place a picture (TikZ picture) on every page of my document. How can I do that?
In essence I would like to control the placing of the image on even and odd pages. For example the ...
6
votes
1answer
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geometry, fancyhdr: \fancyfoot[C]{\thepage} is not really centered
After switching from the report class to the book class and starting to use the fancyhdr package to control headers/footers, the page numbers in my footers are no longer centered.
This is my fancyhdr ...
5
votes
4answers
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how to remove page numbers from first page of chapters
My report requires page numbers to start from 1st chapter 1st page.
So I use
\pagenumbering{arabic}
just before I do
\include{tex_files/chapter1)Introduction}
Now I want the page counting to ...
4
votes
2answers
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How to edit Beamer theme CambridgeUS
I have been using the beamer document class with the theme- cambridgeUS in lyx. The following code is the preamble. Now, I want to insert a hyperlink to a pdf file in all the pages by adding them in ...
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votes
5answers
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“Foldable” “Booklet” like Toodledo's one (pocketmod)
How to achieve in pdfLaTeX foldable booklets similar to those provided by Toodledo ?
(to make question usable to others LuaTex, ConTeX and other systems answers are highly welcome)
Note: look, how ...
10
votes
1answer
991 views
How can I get multiple lines of frame dots in beamer navigation?
I'm writing a presentation using the Darmstadt theme which uses the smoothbars outer theme which is itself just a mild variation of miniframes.
In a couple of my sections, I have so many frames that ...
9
votes
2answers
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\pause in tikzpicture breaks footline
I've discovered that you can \pause within a tikzpicture, which works well until I switched the theme to one with a footline.
I've created a "test case" that illustrates the problem.
...
4
votes
1answer
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Changing color and header of beamer with CambridgeUS
How to change the red color for
- the titles
- the topics
How to adjust the position of the header1 and 2?
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{CambridgeUS}
% Set Color ==============================
...
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votes
1answer
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How could one setup a layout for a dictionary? (if possible)
A friend asked me if I knew any free software for creating dictionaries - which is good at saving space (reduce total number of pages).
Example:
I suppose this might be possible in LaTeX. ...
12
votes
2answers
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Creating unnumbered chapters/sections (plus adding them to the ToC and/or header)
I'm using the report document class for a thesis, and I need to add things like "Acknowledgements" and an "Introduction". I noticed that there is an \abstract command which would have been wonderful ...
10
votes
2answers
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Reproducing an official letterhead
My university, just like many other institutions, isn't really aware of something called LaTeX. Therefore, the letterhead comes only in MS Word. The following (low quality) image is the best guide I ...
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votes
2answers
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Different headers for different chapters
I cannot find in any latex forums a solution for my problem with chapter-specific headers.
I am compiling a one-sided report with various chapters. For all the chapters, I have the header showing the ...
4
votes
2answers
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How to set the header font size using fancyhdr package?
Basically, I want the header fonts to use a different (smaller) font size than the size I set using \documentclass. What should be the option I'd be using ?
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
...
0
votes
2answers
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fancyhdr - anomalous behaviour on first page
I am having trouble typesetting multi-line headers using fancyhdr
The header on the first page behaves differently than the header on subsequent pages. The first page header has no depth, but produces ...
16
votes
3answers
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Strange behaviour with PGF/TikZ and Plain TeX output routine
I noticed a strange behavior when running PGF/tikZ with pdfTeX on my Debian box :
a simple session without tikz:
pdftex
**\relax
*Hello World
*\bye
do output the page number on the page footer.
On ...
6
votes
3answers
152 views
Page numbering in the middle of a line
How can I set up a document to write the page numbering in the middle of a line?
Through fancy pagestyle I've got a situation like the following one:
--------------------- % this is a line after the ...
4
votes
2answers
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How can I get no header but still get “page x of y” in footer?
I'd like to get "page x of y" in a footer on each page, and the way I've found is to use:
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{lastpage}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\cfoot{Page \thepage\ of \pageref{LastPage}}
...
4
votes
1answer
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Let title distinct in mainmatter and TOC and header
Title in mainmatter (long title):
Sec.1 The introduction of TEX --- A powerful typsetting system
blabla...
Sec.2 installation
blabla...
Title in TOC (short title, line break before em ...
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votes
1answer
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How to make (force) line-break in Chapter Title (in ToC, Chapter, Header) - if possible?
I've found how to make different text for Title appearing in ToC, Chapter and headers Chapter title in header too long :
\chapter[medium-length title for TOC, if wanted]{full title name}
...
3
votes
2answers
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How do I add a Page X of Y in a KOMA-script class?
I saw the answers to a similar question, but the accepted answer won't take effect in a KOMA-script class.
\usepackage{lastpage}
...
\cfoot{\thepage\ of \pageref{LastPage}}
I am using scrartcl ...
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votes
2answers
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Custom first page with fancyhdr
I'm using the package fancyhdr to format my footers and headers, with my name in the header and a n of m pages format for the footer. Like so:
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{} % clear all header and ...
