General ⇒ header question

[Abu Noor El-Din]

Hi all,

I am new to latex. I am using the fancyhdr to customize my header and footer and it is working ok.
How can I put a line in my header as we see in text books?

Thanks in advance.

[gmedina]

In the preamble, use

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\renewcommand\headrulewidth{1pt}

to place a rule below the header and

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\renewcommand\footrulewidth{0.5pt}

to place a rule above the footer. Change the values according to your needs. I include a simple example:

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\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\lhead{LEFT} 
\chead{CENTER}
\rhead{RIGHT}
\lfoot{left} 
\cfoot{\thepage}
\rfoot{right}
\renewcommand\headrulewidth{1pt}
\renewcommand\footrulewidth{0.5pt}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
\Blindtext
\end{document}

The blindtext package was loaded only to automatically generate some text.

[Abu Noor El-Din]

again and as always thank you gmedina.

Your example works well also I found another solution using fancyhdr package.