How to add last name to page number in header?

Question

Okay so I am writing a report where in the header, my teacher is requiring that I put both the page number and my last name in the upper-left hand corner of each page (excluding the title page). Now I have managed to put the page number in the upper-left hand corner using

\pagestyle{myheadings}

but this doesn't solve my issue of putting my last name right next to the page number. Help?

Answer 1

The documentation of the fancyhdr package will be extremely helpful to you. Essentially, you need to do the following:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
    \fancyfoot{}
    \lhead{Yourname, \thepage}
    \pagestyle{fancy}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum
\end{document}

Since your title page is the only one that's different, you can just say \thispagestyle{empty} on your title page, and you'll get no headers or footers.

If fancyhdr's default of a header rule bothers you, put in \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} to kill it.

Answer 2

Another possibility is using scrlayer-scrpage. I guess that your document is oneside:

\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}
\clearpairofpagestyles
\addtokomafont{pagehead}{\upshape}
\ihead*{Yourname, \pagemark}

With the article class you have to use \maketitle\thispagestyle{empty} to get an empty title page.

Oneside article:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}
\clearpairofpagestyles
\addtokomafont{pagehead}{\upshape}
\ihead*{Yourname, \pagemark}

\author{Yourname}
\title{Title}

\usepackage{blindtext}% dummy text
\begin{document}
\maketitle\thispagestyle{empty}
\blinddocument
\blinddocument
\end{document}

Oneside report:

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}
\clearpairofpagestyles
\addtokomafont{pagehead}{\upshape}
\ihead*{Yourname, \pagemark}

\author{Yourname}
\title{Title}

\usepackage{blindtext}% dummy text
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\blinddocument
\blinddocument
\end{document}

Note, that the header appears also an chapter pages. To remove the header from the chapter pages simple use \ihead{...} instead \ihead*{...}.

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If your document is twoside an the header should be an the left hand side on both the even and the odd pages than you have to use

\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}
\clearpairofpagestyles
\addtokomafont{pagehead}{\upshape}
\lehead*{Yourname, \pagemark}
\lohead*{Yourname, \pagemark}

Twoside report:

\documentclass[twoside]{report}
\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}
\clearpairofpagestyles
\addtokomafont{pagehead}{\upshape}
\lehead*{Yourname, \pagemark}
\lohead*{Yourname, \pagemark}

\author{Yourname}
\title{Title}

\usepackage{blindtext}% dummy text
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\blinddocument
\blinddocument
\end{document}