Text Formatting ⇒ fancyhdr | Make Header as wide as the Text

[chrisr34000]

Hello!

I have the following header:

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\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[L]{\bfseries \nouppercase \leftmark}
\fancyhead[R]{\bfseries \thepage}
\setlength{\headheight}{16pt}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.5pt}
\fancyheadoffset{\marginparwidth - 1.05cm}

and my page settings are:

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\setlength{\unitlength}{1cm}
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0.3cm}
\setlength{\evensidemargin}{0.3cm}
\setlength{\textwidth}{15.5cm}
\setlength{\topmargin}{-1.2cm}
\setlength{\textheight}{24.5cm}
\columnsep 0.5cm

How do I set

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\fancyheadoffset

to be as wide as a text line can be (maximum width of a textline) ?

Chris

[beethovengg]

pls read again fancyhdr package -- there are many tips there...

what is the size of your paper? (\paperwidth and \paperheight)

since you have set already your \textwidth and other margin parameters, you can calculate the "margin" at the left and the margin at the right.

then use the command, e.g.,

\fancyheadoffset[RO,LE]{0.5in}

which will add 0.5in to the right header for odd pages, and to the left header for even pages. All these and other combinations are discussed in the fancyhdr package. it also depends if you have the option oneside or twoside (pls read package)

u can also use calc package so you can do "calculations" with lengths and margins.

hope this helps.

[localghost]

[…] and my page settings are:

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\setlength{\unitlength}{1cm}
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0.3cm}
\setlength{\evensidemargin}{0.3cm}
\setlength{\textwidth}{15.5cm}
\setlength{\topmargin}{-1.2cm}
\setlength{\textheight}{24.5cm}
\columnsep 0.5cm

[…]

Those settings for the type area are preferably done by the geometry package. Your problem then might vanish.


Thorsten