Page Layout ⇒ \pagestyle{fancy} gives an error

[komal]

I'm trying to add headers to my document but it gives an error right where I include the command \pagestyle{fancy}
The error is :

Missing = inserted for \ifdim
<to be read again>
&
\pagestyle{fancy}

Here's the code:

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\documentclass[pdftex,12pt,a4paper]{report}                                
\usepackage{url}                                                           
\usepackage{subfigure}                                                     
                                                                           
\usepackage[top=1.5in, bottom=1in, left=1.5in, right=1in]{geometry}        
\newcommand{\HRule}{\rule{\linewidth}{0.5mm}}                              
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}                                              
\usepackage{fancyhdr}                                                      
\pagestyle{fancy}                                                          

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi komal,

welcome to the board!

This code example doesn't produce that error, the problem is somewhere else. Please provide a complete example.

Stefan

[komal]

What could be the possible reason. The code itself is quite long and I'm not sure how to mention it here. Can there be an issue with keeping the fanchdr package in a wrong folder though the error is only related to \pagestyle{fancy}

In my document I've used titlpage, chapters and sections. Could there be an issue with that?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You don't need to post your complete document. Create a copy of the document, and reduce it - remove text which is not part of the problem.

Often the preamble together with some dummy chapter resp. text could be sufficient, and even the preamble can be reduced, removing not relevant packages.

This text is helpful: What is a minimal working example. It may seem to be laborious, but a working example is usually a guarantee for getting a solution.

Stefan

[komal]

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\documentclass[pdftex,12pt,a4paper]{report}                                    
\usepackage{url}                                                               
\usepackage{subfigure}                                                                                                                                      \usepackage[top=1.5in, bottom=1in, left=1.5in, right=1in]{geometry}            
\newcommand{\HRule}{\rule{\linewidth}{0.5mm}}                                  
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}                                                  
\usepackage{fancyhdr}                                                          
\pagestyle{fancy}                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              \begin{document}                                                               
                                                                               
\newpage                                                                       
\thispagestyle{empty}                                                          
\mbox{}                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                            
\begin{titlepage}                
\begin{center}                                                                           
\LARGE text \\[0.8cm]                   
\Large tex\\[1.5cm]                                                                                                                              
\HRule \\[0.4cm]                                                                         
{\LARGE\bf text}\\                     
\HRule \\[1.4cm]                                                                         
                                                                                         
\begin{minipage}{0.4\textwidth}                                                          
\begin{flushleft} \large                                                                         

\end{flushleft}              
\end{minipage}               
\begin{minipage}{0.4\textwidth}
\begin{flushright} \large    
\emph{text} \\        

\end{flushright}             
\end{minipage}               
 \end{center}                 
\end{titlepage}            


\newpage                         
\begin{flushleft}                
    \textbf{\large Abstract}     
\end{flushleft}                  


\tableofcontents
\chapter{Introduction}
\section{text}

\bibliographystyle{plain}       
\bibliography{ref}              
                                
\end{document}                  
                                  

                                      

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Does exactly this example gives the error?
Because when I compile it there's no error.

Stefan

[komal]

yes it's the exact example.
Could there be something wrong with the installation of .sty file ?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Possibly! Please include the command \listfiles in your preamble, compile again and post the produced .log file here as attachment to a post.

Stefan

[komal]

I have also used \subsection and \subsubsection commands in the file ( if that helps)

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Your packages are located in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\latex, perhaps not fancyhdr? Is it in your document directory? If yes, move it away or rename it and test again, I would use fancyhdr of MiKTeX.

By the way, your MiKTeX installation 2.5 is very old (2006) and no longer supported, the current version is MiKTeX 2.9.

Stefan