Page Layout ⇒ Page numbers "beside" headers

[nvx]

Hi there,

Using fancyhdr it is very easy to produce the following layout:

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          left (even) page                       right (odd) page
____________________________________   ____________________________________
|                                   |  |                                   |
|          [#  chapter          ]   |  |   [          section  #]          |
|          .--------------------.   |  |   .--------------------.          |
|          |                    |   |  |   |                    |          |
|          |        body        |   |  |   |        body        |          |
|          |                    |   |  |   |                    |          |

The necessary code is this:

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\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
  % Let's get rid of "Chapter X." in the headers...
  \renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{#1}{}}
  % ...and also of the trailing dots after section numbers
  \renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{\thesection\ #1}{}}
  \fancyhf{}  % Delete current setting for header and footer
  \fancyhead[LE]{\thepage\hspace{1em}\leftmark}
  \fancyhead[RO]{\rightmark\hspace{1em}\thepage}
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
  \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
  \addtolength{\headheight}{1.6pt}  % Space for the rule and larger letters
\fancypagestyle{plain}{
  \fancyhead{}  % Get rid of headers on plain pages...
  \fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}  % ...and of the lines
  \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
}
\fancypagestyle{empty}{
  \fancyhead{}  % Get rid of headers on plain pages...
  \fancyfoot{}  % Get rid of footers on plain pages...
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}  % ...and of the lines
  \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
}

However, how does one get the layout below?

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          left (even) page                       right (odd) page
____________________________________   ____________________________________
|                                   |  |                                   |
|     [#]  [chapter             ]   |  |   [             section]  [#]     |
|          .--------------------.   |  |   .--------------------.          |
|          |                    |   |  |   |                    |          |
|          |        body        |   |  |   |        body        |          |
|          |                    |   |  |   |                    |          |

I would like there to be a fixed "gap" (say, 1em) between chapter/section titles and page numbers. In other words, chapter title should be justified left according to the left edge of the text and similarly section title should be justified right according to the right edge of the text. Page number on the left (i.e., even) page should be justified right, page number on the right (i.e., odd) page should be justified left.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Best regards,
nvx

[meho_r]

Did you try something like this:

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\fancyhead[LE]{\hspace*{-2.5em}\makebox[1.5em][r]{\thepage}\hspace{1em}\leftmark}
\fancyhead[RO]{\rightmark\hspace{1em}\makebox[1.5em][l]{\thepage}\hspace*{-2.5em}}

[nvx]

Dear meho_r,

Thanks for the hint with \mbox you provided. Although the code did not work as expected, it reminded me of \fancyheadoffset. The neccessary code is as follows:

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\fancyheadoffset[LE]{3em}
\fancyhead[LE]{\makebox[2em][r]{\thepage}\hspace{1em}\leftmark}
\fancyheadoffset[RO]{3em}
\fancyhead[RO]{\rightmark\hspace{1em}\makebox[2em][l]{\thepage}}

Best regards,
nvx

[localghost]

I can offer a more „TeXnical” solution.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twoside,english]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[
  headheight=14pt,
  includeheadfoot,
  inner=3cm,
  outer=4cm,
  vmargin=3cm
]{geometry}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[LE]{\leavevmode\llap{\thepage\qquad}\nouppercase{\leftmark}}
\fancyhead[RO]{\leavevmode\nouppercase{\rightmark}\rlap{\qquad\thepage}}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\begin{document}
  \blinddocument  
\end{document}

The blindtext package is only for creating dummy text thus not part of the solution.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[nvx]

Dear Thorsten,

Thanks for your solution. I like its simplicity -- compared to the convoluted thing I came up with...

Have a nice day,
nvx