LyX ⇒ Fancy page headers

[lrp]

Hello,

I'm running Lyx 1.5.5 on Debian Lenny.

Using book(memoir) I'd like to show author's name centered on even pages, book name centered on odd pages.

As soon as I enter \usepackage{fancyhdr} in the document preamble, however, I get the following error when I try to view as *.pdf:

Latex Error: Command \footruleskip already defined

I'm following the instructions in fancyhdr.pdf. Any suggestions on how to fix or otherwise implement the page header design proposed above?

Many thanks,

LRP

[fatra2]

Hi there,

Did you set the footruleskip??? Otherwise, you might want to set it. See what happens if you change the value of this rule.

By the way, I am a bit surprised that the footruleskip gives an error message and not a warning message. Did you install the fancyhdr package manually???

Cheers

[lrp]

Thanks for response fatra2,

No, didn't set footruleskip. But will give it a try.

fancyhdr was included with my distribution:

/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/fancyhdr
/usr/share/doc/texlive-latex-base-doc/latex/fancyhdr
/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/latex/fancyhdr

Thanks again,

LRP

[lrp]

Ah, just found this:

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive ... 00175.html

"memoir has its internal implementation both of fancyhdr and setspace.
So it is incompatible with them, but their functionality is already
present; look at the documentation."

When I switch document class to book (Koma Script) it words. Now I'll check out Memoir docs to see what's going on there.

Many thanks,

LRP