Page Layout ⇒ fancyhdr and extending margins

[theo moore]

Hi, I'm using the fancyhdr package (I realise it's been 'superceded' with the titlesec package, but I find the documentation for that package confusing).

What I want is to extend my left and right margins and to have the page number outside the margin, but with the \leftmark or \rightmark (or name of the chapter/section) to align with the page margin.

For example, here is a crude way of doing it

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\documentclass[twoside]{report}

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\fancyhead{}
\fancyfoot{}
\fancyheadoffset[LE, RO]{1cm}
\fancyhead[RO]{%
 \small\sffamily\sc\rightmark \hspace*{0.4cm} {\{\thepage\}} }
\fancyhead[LE]{%
 \small\sffamily\sc {\{\thepage\}} \hspace*{0.4cm} \leftmark }

\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{#1}{}}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{#1}{}}


\begin{document}

\chapter{The name of the chapter}
\section{The name of the section}

\noindent Text goes here

\newpage

\noindent Text goes here

\newpage

\flushright Text goes here

\end{document}

The left and right margins have been extended by 1cm, and by using \hspace, I can insert some space between the page number and the heading. Unfortunately, I want it to be perfectly aligned. How would I do that?

I thought that perhaps I could use something like

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\parbox{extensionlength}{\thepage}

Unfortunately, it does not seem to like that.

Any ideas?

[gmedina]

Hi,

you could use a box with the same width that the one you specified for the head offset and place the page number inside that box; i.e., you could use something like

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...
\fancyhead{}
\fancyfoot{}
\fancyheadoffset[LE, RO]{1cm}
\fancyhead[RO]{%
\small\sffamily\sc\rightmark\makebox[1cm]{\{\thepage\}}} 
\fancyhead[LE]{%
\small\sffamily\sc \makebox[1cm]{\{\thepage\}}\leftmark}
...

using the second optional argument for \makebox you can control the position of the number inside the box (default: centered).

[theo moore]

Yup! Perfect