I wish to create a fancy header
with an optional logo. If the logo was not defined by the user using
\logo{some-file.pdf}
the document would use the default logo ('TFPL.pdf').
My solution
\providecommand*{\logo}[1]{\gdef\@logo{#1}}
\providecommand*{\@logo}{TFPL.pdf}
works well, but because of some reasons I want to define the default logo-file with a macro
:
\newcommand*{\logodefault}{TFPL.pdf}
\providecommand*{\logo}[1]{\gdef\@logo{#1}}
\providecommand*{\@logo}{\logodefault}
But I get an error:
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.mkii [Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).] ) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls)
! LaTeX Error: File `TFPL.pdf' not found.
My MWE:
\documentclass[a4paper,9pt]{article}
\usepackage{TFPL}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{epsfig}
\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.pdf,.jpg}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\section{One}\indent
\lipsum[1-8]
\end{document}
TFPL.sty:
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesPackage{TFPL}[2016/08/02 Thinfilm]
\RequirePackage{xstring} %% if-else
\DeclareOption*{\PackageWarning{Thinfilm}{Unknown ‘\CurrentOption’... te marha}}
\ProcessOptions\relax
%%----------Page--------------------------------------------------------------------------
\RequirePackage[margin=2.5cm, top=4cm, bottom=3cm, headsep=2cm]{geometry}
%%----------Header------------------------------------------------------------------------
\newcommand*{\logodefault}{TFPL.pdf}
\providecommand*{\logo}[1]{\gdef\@logo{#1}}
\providecommand*{\@logo}{\logodefault}
\RequirePackage{lastpage}
\RequirePackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\rhead{\includegraphics[height=1cm]{\@logo}}
\lhead{\title}
\rfoot{Page \thepage / \pageref{LastPage}}
Why does LaTeX
not found the file 'TFPL.pdf' in the second (defined via macro
) case?
epsfig
shouldn't be loaded unless you need to emulate a latex2.09 document from 1990. your graphics settings seem very inconsistent, you have specified just pdf and jpg file extensions but have loaded epstopdf which is for including eps files, also\indent
after a section heading does nothing.