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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}
\lfoot{text}
\cfoot{text 2}
\rfoot{text 3}
\begin{document}
Foo Bar
\end{document}
There are various examples in the fancyhdr documentation of redefining the \headrulewidth:
\fancyhf{} % sets both header and footer to nothing
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
% your new footer definitions here
will do what you want.
To learn more about fancyhdr, you could either look into its documentation or at the respective chapter in the Wikibook LaTeX.
\renewcommand. Is there any difference between what you wrote and \setlength{\headrulewidth}{0pt}?
Jan 17, 2013 at 15:16
fancyhdr implements these lengths as macros and not actual lengths, so \setlength simply won't work for them. Macros don't consume any of TeX's length registers, which is part of the motivation that the fancyhdr author gives for this implementation. It is, however, a bit unintuitive and non-standard. Generally lengths would be set using \setlength but in this case they are not actually lengths in the underlying coding.
Jan 17, 2013 at 16:33