How to turn off headers with KOMA-Script Book

Question

I'm using the KOMA-Script Book class to create a book in LyX. I don't want to have any headers in my book, but they're active by default. Is there anything I can do to turn them off?

Thank you for any help you may provide!

Answer 1

There are four predefined page styles that can be used with KOMA-Script class without loading an additional package for header and footer.

You can use \pagestyle{plain} to get the page number in footer but an empty header.

• empty: header and footer are empty
• headings: page number in footer, headings will be set by chapters, sections etc.
• myheadings: page number in footer, headings have to be set by the user
• plain: page number in footer, header is empty

The default page style of scrbook is headings. So the chapter will be in header on even pages and the sections on odd pages.

It seems that you want to use page style plain.

\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage{blindtext}% dummy text

\pagestyle{plain}    
\begin{document}
    \blinddocument
\end{document}

Or you can use \pagestyle{myheadings}. This pagestyle allows to set own header entries using \markboth or \markright. These entries will then not be changed by new chapters or sections.

\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage{blindtext}% dummy text

\pagestyle{myheadings}
\begin{document}
\blinddocument% empty header
\markboth
  {My header entry on even pages}
  {My header entry on odd pages}
\blinddocument% header with own entries
\end{document}