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I guys,

I am using this technical report template that I consider robust and well built. I tried to change the template adapting it to my needs and I managed almost in everything, except for two kind of customizations.

I am therefore writing hoping that someone can give me an indication on how to make:

  1. decrease the vertical space above the titles of each chapter;

  2. insert a footer (maybe with Fancyhdr) also in the initial pages of the chapters. I can insert it, but only in the second pages. I found the portion of code that regulates Header and Footer, but I can't customize it.

Does someone know how to solve these two questions?

Thank you, C.

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EDIT: more specific footer settings, see below.

The template use the memoir document class, which has a lot of customizability. You can make these changes in preamble/general.tex:

line 166, change

\setlength\beforechapskip{0mm}

to

\setlength\beforechapskip{-3cm}

or whatever fits your design.

Footers: for the first page of a chapter pagestyle plain is used, for the others pagestyle myruled. You have to change the footers for both. Line 195-196:

\makeevenfoot{myruled}{}{}{}
\makeoddfoot{myruled}{}{}{}

change to

\makeevenfoot{myruled}{MY FOOTER}{}{}
\makeoddfoot{myruled}{MY FOOTER}{}{}

Line 212-213:

\makeevenfoot{plain}{}{}{}            % No page number on plain even pages (chapter begin)
\makeoddfoot{plain}{}{}{}             % No page number on plain odd pages (chapter begin)

change to

\makeevenfoot{plain}{MY FOOTER}{}{}            % No page number on plain even pages (chapter begin)
\makeoddfoot{plain}{MY FOOTER}{}{}             % No page number on plain odd pages (chapter begin)

Change the comments to whatever is appropriate.

More specific footer settings, as indicated in the comment.

\makeevenhead{myruled}{}{}{\hffont\leftmark} % No page number
\makeoddhead{myruled}{\hffont\rightmark}{}{} % No page number
\makeevenfoot{myruled}{\hffont Lorem ipsum dolor}{\hffont Again lorem ipsum}{\hffont Page \thepage~of \thelastpage}
\makeoddfoot{myruled}{\hffont Lorem ipsum dolor}{\hffont Again lorem ipsum}{\hffont Page \thepage~of \thelastpage}
\renewcommand{\footruleheight}{\normalrulethickness}
...
\makeevenfoot{plain}{\hffont Lorem ipsum dolor}{\hffont Again lorem ipsum}{\hffont Page \thepage~of \thelastpage}
\makeoddfoot{plain}{\hffont Lorem ipsum dolor}{\hffont Again lorem ipsum}{\hffont Page \thepage~of \thelastpage}

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  • Dear @Pietervanoostrum, your answer helped me a lot. I've set the lenght of the chapter's skip and now it's great. Instead, for the footer part, I have still some troubles. What I want to obtain is something like this, in all the pages of the document, except for the first two pages: drive.google.com/file/d/1nR5Gzvw6s0PFQT7vcyHmcQ6-Op7z-J0a/… Do you think it would be possible?
    – Dawson
    Apr 28, 2022 at 5:18
  • See the edit in the answer
    – Pieter van Oostrum
    Apr 28, 2022 at 11:48
  • Dear @Pietervanoostrum, you solved my question, thank you. What if I want to insert the same horizontal line in the HEADER also? I tried writing this command, but it doesn't seem to work. \renewcommand{\headruleheight}{\normalrulethickness}
    – Dawson
    Apr 29, 2022 at 4:37
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    I suppose you mean on the first page of a chapter, because on all other pages there is already a horizontal line. This would do that: \makeheadrule{plain}{\textwidth}{\normalrulethickness}
    – Pieter van Oostrum
    Apr 29, 2022 at 17:55
  • Dear @Pietervanoostrum, I meant everywhere except for the first page of a chapter, where there is already a horizontal line. So I just changed plain with myruled in your code and everything worked: \makeheadrule{myruled}{\textwidth}{\normalrulethickness}. Again, thank you very much!
    – Dawson
    May 1, 2022 at 6:37

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