Footer for fancy report format

Question

Currently, I am preparing a document where my song lyrics are written on. I found a nice chapter style after some search on the internet. However, it needs some modification. I want to add a footer (a box to write the date of songs which is different for each song) to the most bottom left corner of my document, but only for the chapter pages. Here is my minimal example:

\documentclass[12pt]{report}  
%Options: Sonny, Lenny, Glenn, Conny, Rejne, Bjarne, Bjornstrup  
\usepackage[Bjornstrup]{fncychap}  
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}  
\usepackage[turkish]{babel}    

\begin{document}  
\title{Hayatım...}      % type title between braces  
\author{Rıza Bayoğlu}   % type author(s) between braces  
\date{-}    % type date between braces  
\maketitle  
\tableofcontents  

\chapter{Bekleyiş}  

Yine uzun bir bekleyiş\\  
Sonsuzluğa doğru\\  
Kanat açmış uçarken\\  
Yine sabah oldu.
\end{document}

By the way, how can I change page number location to the bottom right side instead of placing it at the middle with a font size greater than the text?

Answer 1

With fancyhdr it's easy to define a suitable page style, but something else must be changed. I also define a \chapterdate command to be supplied after \chapter to set the chapter's date.

\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}  
\usepackage[turkish]{babel}

\usepackage{fancyhdr,etoolbox}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyfoot[R]{\thepage}
\fancypagestyle{chapter}{%
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}%
  \fancyhf{}%
  \fancyfoot[R]{\thepage}%
  \fancyfoot[L]{\THEchapterdate}%
}
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}%
  \fancyhf{}%
  \fancyfoot[R]{\thepage}%
}
\patchcmd{\chapter}{plain}{chapter}{}{}
\makeatletter
\pretocmd{\@starttoc}{\thispagestyle{plain}}{}{}
\makeatother
\newcommand{\THEchapterdate}{\today} % default
\newcommand{\chapterdate}[1]{\renewcommand{\THEchapterdate}{#1}}

\begin{document}  
\title{Hayatım...}      % type title between braces  
\author{Rıza Bayoğlu}   % type author(s) between braces  
\date{9 Eylül, 2013}    % type date between braces  
\maketitle  
\tableofcontents  

\chapter{Bekleyiş}
\chapterdate{1 Eylül, 2010}

Yine uzun bir bekleyiş\\  
Sonsuzluğa doğru\\  
Kanat açmış uçarken\\  
Yine sabah oldu.

\chapter{Whatever}
\chapterdate{30 Eylül, 2011}

Yine uzun bir bekleyiş\\  
Sonsuzluğa doğru\\  
Kanat açmış uçarken\\  
Yine sabah oldu.

\end{document}

Note that with \usepackage[turkish]{babel} you don't need to change the labels yourself and Turkish will be properly hyphenated.

_{I removed the call to fncychap because I like none of those chapter styles; to be honest, I consider them among the ugliest I've ever seen. However, just put it back, if you really want to; the code doesn't need any change.}

Answer 2

Use the titleps package

\documentclass[12pt]{report}  
%Options: Sonny, Lenny, Glenn, Conny, Rejne, Bjarne, Bjornstrup  
\usepackage[Bjornstrup]{fncychap}  
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}  
\renewcommand*\contentsname{İçindekiler}  
\renewcommand*\chaptername{Bölüm}  

\usepackage{titleps}
\newpagestyle{main}{%
\setfoot%
{\thepage}% left
{}% centre
{% right
\fbox{
    \begin{minipage}{2in}
        \hfill\vspace{1.5\baselineskip}
    \end{minipage}
    }
  }
}


\begin{document}  
\title{Hayatım...}      % type title between braces  
\author{Rıza Bayoğlu}   % type author(s) between braces  
\date{9 Eylül, 2013}    % type date between braces  
\maketitle  
\tableofcontents  

\chapter{Bekleyiş}  

\thispagestyle{main} % Change for chapters 
\pagestyle{main} % change for the rest of 


Yine uzun bir bekleyiş\\  
Sonsuzluğa doğru\\  
Kanat açmış uçarken\\  
Yine sabah oldu.
\end{document}