I'm trying to define a custom layout for my report for which I'm using fancyhdr. On the pages which contains a chapter start I want my header to contain a colorbox spanning across the whole page (0 cm margins) although keeping my defaults margin in the text area. I can get the box to span across the "margin notes" area, but not the other side. Here's some of my code:
\fancypagestyle{plain}{ % pages containing chapter start
\fancyhead{}
\fancyhead[RO]{\colorbox{NavyBlue}{\textcolor{White}{\raisebox{0cm}[1cm][0.5cm]{\makebox[3cm][c]{\textbf{\CNoV\thechapter}}}}}
}
Any ideas on how to do it?
UPDATE
alt text http://docs.google.com/File?id=dg4jt6qx_10nnpxfqdj_b
As you can see I want my header to span across the whole page (on pages containing chapter start). The text should have the normal margins..
Take a look at Fancy chapter headings example at the texample.net site.
It appears to be what your are looking for.
alt text http://media.texample.net/tikz/examples/PNG/fancy-chapter-headings.png
I'm not entirely sure what you want, but perhaps this is it:
\fancypagestyle{plain}{ % pages containing chapter start
\fancyhead{}
\fancyhead[RO]{\hspace*{-5cm}
\colorbox{NavyBlue}{\textcolor{White}{\raisebox{0cm}[1cm][0.5cm]{\makebox[25cm][c]{%
\textbf{\CNoV\thechapter}}}}}}
}
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For the first 2 pages the page number is at the right place, then for pages 3 and 4 it drops to a place that won't show up when converted to pdf.
% Footers
\lfoot{} % Define left footer
\rfoot{Page \thepage \hspace{1pt} of \pageref{LastPage}}
\cfoot{}% Define center footer
Either your \footheight or \headheight is too small. fancyhdr will inform you about this in the .log file and also give you the minimum value that you need. Then you can increase it to a suitable value, e.g. with
\setlength{\headheight}{10pt}
I want to print a missing sheet from the old book. I found text in Internet and measured the page size and margins. After compiling the LaTeX script, it looks good, but doesn't fit to one sheet (two pages). With text size of 9pt text takes up less than two full pages, and with 10pt - more than two pages. How to fit this text to two pages?
Found solution: \linespread{0.93}
I am writing my PhD thesis (120+ pages) in latex, the deadline is approaching and I am struggling with layout problems.
I am using the documentstyle book.
I am posting both problems in this one thread because I am not sure if the solution might be related to both problems or not.
Problems are:
1.) The page numbers are mostly located on the top-right of each page (this is correct and where I want them to be).
However, only on the first page of chapters and on the first page of what I call "special chapters", the page number is located bottom-centered.
With "special chapters" I mean: List of Contents, List of Figures, List of Tables, References, Index.
My university will not accept the thesis like this. The page number must ALWAYS be top-right one each page, even if the page is the first page of a chapter or the first page of something like the List of Contents.
How can I fix this?
2.) On the first page of chapters and "special chapters" (List of Contents...), the chapter title is located far too low on the page. This is the standard layout of LaTeX with documentstyle book I think.
However, the chapter title must start at the very top of the page! I.e. the same height as the normal text on the pages that follow.
I mean the chapter title, not the header.
I.e., if there is a chapter called
"Chapter 1
Dynamics of foobar under mechanical stress"
then that text has to start from the top the page, but right now it starts several centimeters below the top.
How can I fix this?
Have tried all kinds of things to no effect, I'd be very thankful for a solution!
Thanks.
A try to answer
problem #1.
Even if you're using the headings pagestyle, or your custom pagestyle, the special pages (chapter beginnings and so on) are formatted with the plain pagestyle.
To avoid this, load the fancyhdr package (as mentioned in the previous answer) with
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
in your preamble. Then, (always in the preamble) define your custom pagestyle.
For normal pages (assuming you're not using twoside as an option of \documentclass[]{}):
\fancypagestyle{phdthesis}{%
\fancyhf %clear all headers and footers fields
\fancyhead[R]{\thepage} %prints the page number on the right side of the header
}
For special pages:
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%redefining plain pagestyle
\fancyhf %clear all headers and footers fields
\fancyhead[R]{\thepage} %prints the page number on the right side of the header
}
After doing this, you can set you page style declaring \pagestyle{phdthesis} right before \begin{document}.
For further details, refer to the fancyhdr package documentation.
Now trying to answer
problem #2
As a first attempt, you can use the titlesec package, using the option compact. In the preamble, type:
\usepackage[compact]{titlesec}
If you're not completely satisfied with this solution, you can specify the spacing above and below the titles with \titlespacing
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{ command }[ shape ]{ format }{ label }{ sep }{ before }[ after ]
\titlespacing{ command }{ left }{ beforesep }{ aftersep }[ right ]
With \titleformat you can define your own style for chapter titles, and then you can define the spacing with \titlespacing.
I don't know which style of titles you have to use, so it's better for you to have a look to the package documentation (you can recall package documentation typing texdoc NameOfThePackage in a terminal).
Please note that you need to define the chapter title format in order to specify its vertical spacing (page 5 of the documentation). As an example:
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}[hang]{\huge}{\thechapter}{1em}{}
\titlespacing{\chapter}{0pt}{0pt}{1cm}
With these commands you have the chapter title with the number and the chapter name on the same line, a 0 pt space before the title, and a 1 cm space between the title and the follwing text.
To change the page appearance, you can use the fancyhdr package. It's probably a change in the \pagestyle used for the special chapters.
To change the appearance of the chapter title (to have the chapter title printed from the top on the page, you have to use a modified style that change \chapter command rendering.
Here is an example of command I used for my own thesis. It is probably not the appearance you want but gives you an hint about the command you have to redefine.
% modified from book.ltx latex sources
\def\#makechapterhead#1{%
\thispagestyle{empty}%
\vspace*{50\p#}%
\vspace*{10\p#}%
{\parindent \z# \centering \reset#font
\thickhrulefill\quad
\scshape \#chapapp{} \thechapter
\quad \thickhrulefill
\par\nobreak
\vspace*{10\p#}%
\interlinepenalty\#M
\hrule
\vspace*{10\p#}%
\Huge \bfseries #1\par\nobreak
\par
\vspace*{10\p#}%
\hrule
\vskip 40\p#}}
Regarding problem #2 an alternative without additional packages is to change the vertical offset of the page, and then resetting it to the previous value.
\voffset -1in
\chapter{Your chapter}
% text
\voffset 0in
I am using the "beamerthemesplit" template of the Beamer LaTeX package. This templates includes the author's name and the title of the presentation in the footer of all pages. Is anyone aware of any way to suppress this footer?
I got rid of the default footer, and inserted page numbers instead using the following commands.
%gets rid of bottom navigation bars
\setbeamertemplate{footline}[page number]
%gets rid of navigation symbols
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
I do not have the most direct answer for you as I do not use the beamerthemesplit template.
But for a recent presentation, I was tempted to decompose the themese a little. So if you use this
\mode<presentation>
{
\useoutertheme{default} % empty
% \useoutertheme{infolines}% simple but bland
% \useoutertheme{split} % ok if compress option used
% \useoutertheme{shadow} % way too much space used -- ok with option 'compress'
%\useoutertheme{shadow}
%\setbeamercovered{transparent} % or whatever (possibly just delete it)
%\useoutertheme[subsection=false]{miniframes}
}
you get via default a really empty setup. Adding infolines gives you a footer with three parts, you can study the code of that outer theme to just add parts. Likewiese with color themses -- I just experimented a little and eventually went back to a default theme.
I am writing a report in LaTeX and want to insert a page at the end containing a summary of the content. Of course the summary will contain a lot of data so I want to add a page with another paper size (A3,...). But I don't find any solution on the internet for that problem. Is there a solution to this problem or do I have to write an additional LaTeX file with that summary?
\par\vfill\break % Break Last Page
\advance\vsize by 8cm % Advance page height
\advance\voffset by -4cm % Shift top margin
% Start big page
Some text
% End big page
\par\vfill\break % Break the page with different margins
\advance\vsize by -8cm % Return old margings and page height
\advance\voffset by 4cm % Return old margings and page height
I think setting all page parameters after a page flush (aka eject) should work, but I haven't tried it. Start with \paperwidth and \paperheight. You can try using the geometry package and issuing another \geometry{...} command.
You can write the page as a separate PDF and then include it with either \includegraphics or the pdfpages package.