Page Layout ⇒ Fancy header with Table of Contents

[isharp2]

Hi,
I am writing a thesis and my table of contents title, must say "TABLE OF CONTENTS" on page 1, and "TABLE OF CONTENTS (continued)" for every page thereafter.

After thinking about this for the past 12 hours, I had the idea to use 'fancyhdr', since it intrinsically puts headings on the second page. It was my hope that I could put a centered heading in the place of where I would want "TABLE OF CONTENTS (continued)" to be.

However, the way I have it right now, fancyhdr does not print footers or headers on the table of contents page. Is it possible to change this? code below:

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\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\setlength{\headheight}{15pt} %Required by fancyhdr
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}%Get rid of the horizontal line up top
\renewcommand{\refname}{ }%Make the title for the reference section blank... because the '\section' puts the title 'REFERENCES' in already.
\doublespacing

\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}

\pagenumbering{roman} %The acknowledgments and table of contents must be in roman numerals

\rhead{Right top}
\chead{Middle top}
\lhead{Left top}
\rfoot{Right bottom}
\cfoot{\thepage}
\lfoot{Left bottom}

\tableofcontents

thanks

[5gon12eder]

You don't get any of your headings because you say \pagestyle{empty} for all of your document. The fancyhdr package by default only defines the page style fancy.

Am I right that you only want roman page numbers for the front matter but not the whole document?

Here is an example how you could do it:

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\documentclass[twoside, titlepage]{article}% or whatever...

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}% used to generate random text

% needed for the page style definitions:
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{extramarks}
\usepackage{afterpage}

% define page style ``fancy''
\fancyhead{}
\fancyhead[RO,LE]{TABLE OF CONTENTS \lastxmark}
\fancyfoot{}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}

\title{Lorem Ipsum}
\author{Alice Foo \and Bob Bar}

\begin{document}
  \pagenumbering{roman}% roman page numbers and
  \pagestyle{plain}%     plain page style in front matter
  \maketitle
  \blindtext% whatever else is supposed to go before the TOC...

  \clearpage
  \pagestyle{fancy}% fancy page style in TOC
  \afterpage{\extramarks{}{(continued)}}
  \tableofcontents

  \clearpage
  \pagenumbering{arabic}% arabic page numbers and
  \pagestyle{plain}%      plain page styles in the rest of the
                   %      document (or whatever...)

  % random content:
  \Blinddocument
  \blinddocument
  \Blinddocument
  \blinddocument
  \Blinddocument
  \blinddocument
  \Blinddocument
  \blinddocument
  \Blinddocument
  \blinddocument
\end{document}

Best

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

this code is not compilable. The document class is missing, and more. So it cannot be tested and fixed. Not every reader builds an example himself following your description, so there might be less answers.

This page is helpful: What is a minimal working example, it also helps in creating such examples, which nearly guarantee a solution.

For printing footers or headers on the table of contents page, I suggest using \fancypagestyle{plain}{...}. If you would have posted a compilable test case example, I would have posted working code. Perhaps it already helps though.

By the way, I don't see a reason to put a header with the title on the same page, where the title is already in the header within the body text.

Stefan