How to set style of header and footer with horizontal lines in report document type?

Question

How can I set the header and footer for pages as in the picture below:

1. On the top - title of the document and horizontal line below it.
2. On the bottom - author's name and title of subsection on the left side and page numbering on the right, with horizontal line above.

Answer 1

Here's an example using the scrpage2 package from the KOMA-Script bundle.

\documentclass{report}

\usepackage[nouppercase,headsepline,footsepline,plainfootsepline]{scrpage2}
\automark{section}
\pagestyle{scrheadings}
\clearscrheadfoot
\ihead{(Document title)}
\ofoot[\pagemark]{\pagemark}% Optional argument controls chapter-starting pages
\ifoot[(Author) -- \headmark]{(Author) -- \headmark}

\renewcommand*{\footfont}{\normalfont\slshape}

\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}

\blinddocument

\end{document}

EDIT: Used the \automark command in order to display section headings.

Answer 2

If you can use the memoir documentclass, then setting \makeheadrule and makefootrule appropriately should do it.

\documentclass[openany,oneside]{memoir}
\usepackage{lipsum} % This package generates blind text. It's not part of the example per se...

\title{This is the title}
\author{A. Author}

\makeheadrule{plain}{\textwidth}{\normalrulethickness}
\makefootrule{plain}{\textwidth}{\normalrulethickness}{0ex}
\makeoddhead{plain}{\thetitle}{}{}
\makeoddfoot{plain}{\theauthor}{}{\thepage} 

\pagestyle{plain}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\chapter{The First Chapter}
\section{First section}
\lipsum
\section{Section another}
\lipsum
\end{document}

If you'd rather the rules didn't appear on the title page and on the first page of the chapter, replace plain by something else throughout.

Answer 3

Your best bet is probably the titlesec package. Here's a MWE for the article class that almost works... (The titling package defines \theauthor and \thetitle commands that should print the contents of \author{} and \title{} respectively. But \thetitle seems to have broken...

\documentclass{report}
\newcommand{\mytitle}{This is the title}
\title{\mytitle}
\author{A. Author}
\usepackage{titling}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\renewpagestyle{plain}{
\headrule
\sethead{\mytitle}{}{}
\setfoot{\theauthor --- \sectiontitle}{}{\thepage}
\footrule
}
\pagestyle{plain}

\begin{document}
\section{First section}
\newpage

\section{Section another}

\end{document}

Of course, since the title of the document doesn't change you can just set it yourself. Or use a trick like defining \newcommand{\mytitle}{This is the Title} and then putting \title{\mytitle} and then putting \mytitle in the relevant place in this example.

This all works fine with report class, and since the OP asked for report class, that's what I went with. But I'd actually recommend the KOMA or memoir solutions, since they're better in general...

As it stands at the moment, this solution does everything automatically except the document title (which can be done with the \mytitle trick. There's a memoir solution that works with everything except the subsection title. Lockstep's KOMA solution can automatically do title and author if you add the titling package...