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I was wondering if anyone knows of a good way to separate Figures from the body of the document with a dotted line? I'm thinking a dotted line below the figure for those appearing at the top; one above for those appearing at the bottom; and one both above and below for those appearing inside the ...

Thanks for the reply. I actually had looked at that documentation before, but I couldn't tell if there was a simple command to literally just call the short name of a chapter/part - do you know of one? From what I understand, \chaptermark{} is used to define a very short title for the current ...

I'm using fancyhdr (documentclass: report) and wanted to see if anyone knew how to make the first page of a new part have a different format from the first page of a new chapter?

From what I understand, both \part and \chapter set the page style to "plain" within the command, so that I can redefine ...

Hey everyone. This is the first time I've ever posted to any sort of forum, so please excuse me if I make any novice mistakes.

I'm using fancyhdr and would like to make the following appear in italics at the top left of each page:

"Part <part #>, Ch. <ch #>: <part short name> / <chapter short name ...