Installing fancyhdr.sty in Lyx 2.3

christo_91 · Post by **christo_91** » Fri Sep 13, 2019 7:33 pm

Hi,

I'm trying to install the fancyhdr.sty package to Lyx so that I can add and amend headers but I'm struggling to get the program to recognise the packages (there are three; extramarks, fancyhdr and fancyheadings). I've currently tried putting the 3 files into the 'Resources' --> 'tex' subfolder of Lyx but that doesn't seem to have worked?

Any help please?

Thanks,

Christo.

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Ijon Tichy · Post by **Ijon Tichy** » Sat Sep 14, 2019 12:06 pm

LyX is a frontend to LaTeX. You should install packages with the package manager of the TeX distributions, e.g., the tlmgr of TeX-Live or the MiKTeX console of MiKTeX.

BTW: fancyheadings is a deprecated LaTeX 2.09 package. You should not use it. Use either it's official successor fancyhdr or another up-to-date pagestyle package. IMHO LyX itself uses fancyhdr, if you use the LyX settings to setup the page head and foot. Package extramarks is part of the fancyhdr bundle and will be installed with that package, if you use the package manager of the TeX distribution to install fancyhdr.

christo_91 · Post by **christo_91** » Sun Sep 15, 2019 12:19 pm

Ijon Tichy wrote:LyX is a frontend to LaTeX. You should install packages with the package manager of the TeX distributions, e.g., the tlmgr of TeX-Live or the MiKTeX console of MiKTeX.

BTW: fancyheadings is a deprecated LaTeX 2.09 package. You should not use it. Use either it's official successor fancyhdr or another up-to-date pagestyle package. IMHO LyX itself uses fancyhdr, if you use the LyX settings to setup the page head and foot. Package extramarks is part of the fancyhdr bundle and will be installed with that package, if you use the package manager of the TeX distribution to install fancyhdr.

Thanks for this. I've checked in MikTex and it says the package is installed, but when I go into Lyx ('Document settings' --> 'Modules') and select 'Custom Headers and Footers' it says "Packages required: fancyhdr.sty" and "Filename: customHeadersFooters.module" ... I'm guessing this means that Lyx hasn't got the package installed within itself? Do you know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,

rais · Post by **rais** » Sun Sep 15, 2019 10:12 pm

christo_91 wrote:I've checked in MikTex and it says the package is installed, but when I go into Lyx ('Document settings' --> 'Modules') and select 'Custom Headers and Footers' it says "Packages required: fancyhdr.sty" and "Filename: customHeadersFooters.module" ...

If memory serves, you need to tell LyX to scan for installed LaTeX packages, after you installed one (or more).

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