I want to create a Fancy Title Header for an Article, like the one shown below:
Can someone please provide some hint on how to achieve this?
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Sign up to join this communityHere's a solution using titleps
:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{titleps}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\newcommand\HeaderTitle{Time For Action -- Embedding a picture within text}
\newpagestyle{myheader}
{
\sethead{}{\colorbox{black}{\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-2\fboxsep\relax}{%
\strut\textcolor{white}{\sffamily\large\bfseries\HeaderTitle}}}}{}
}
\pagestyle{myheader}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-3]
\end{document}
The idea is to use a new page style using a \parbox
of width equal to \textwidth
inside a \colorbox
.
Here's the same idea but using now fancyhdr
:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\newcommand\HeaderTitle{Time For Action -- Embedding a picture within text}
\fancyhf{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancyhf[C]{\colorbox{black}{\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-2\fboxsep\relax}{%
\strut\textcolor{white}{\sffamily\large\bfseries\HeaderTitle}}}}
\setlength\headheight{18pt}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-3]
\end{document}
Now that I reread the question, I am not sure if a header (as in header/footer) was required or if the question is about the tiles for a sectional unit (\section
, for example). My two examples above solve the first case; for the second case, here's a solution with titlesec
(in both cases the idea for the solution reamains the same):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\titleformat{\section}
{\normalfont\large\sffamily\bfseries}{}{0em}
{\colorbox{black}{\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-2\fboxsep\relax}{%
\textcolor{white}{\thesection\quad#1}}}}
\titleformat{name=\section,numberless}
{\normalfont\large\sffamily\bfseries}{}{0em}
{\colorbox{black} {\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-2\fboxsep\relax}{%
\textcolor{white}{#1}}}}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[2]
\section*{Time For Action -- Embedding a picture within text}
\lipsum[2]
\end{document}
\section
?