Page Layout ⇒ fancyhdr | Header only in first Chapter

[brunoasroma]

Hello everyone,

I have a problem with fancyhdr package, it prints the header in the table of contents, index of figures, bibliography and the first chapter. From chapter 2 and throughout all the chapters I have no header (but I have the page number in the foot). In the first chapter it works all fine, it prints numberofchapter.numberofsection nameofsection but the header disappears from chapter 2.
Please help me, here's the code

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{report}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[italian]{babel}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{left=2.5cm}
\geometry{right=2.5cm}
\geometry{top=3cm}
\geometry{bottom=2cm}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{subfigure}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancyplain}

\lhead{}
\chead{}
\rhead{\nouppercase{\rightmark}}
\lfoot{}
\cfoot{}
\rfoot{\thepage}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

So what you are doing from chapter 2 on? You showed just the beginning, where still all is ok.

Note, the first page of each chapter has plain page style, which means no header. If each chapter from chapter 2 on consists just of one page, still, you would not see the header again because all pages would have plain page style, not fancy.

Stefan

[brunoasroma]

Hi,
yes I know, I've chosen \pagestyle{fancyplain} cause I like that the first page of each chapter have no header.
Chapter 2,3 and 4 have more than page each. I can't understand the problem, it's like \rightmark can't go over the first chapter.
Maybe is there a problem with the documentclass (report) ?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

report and fancyhdr are compatible. Perhaps post a minimal working example, which shows the problem. This can be a hacked down copy of your document, reduced but still compilable. Insert dummy text if necessary.

Stefan

[brunoasroma]

I was writing some text in the document to post here an I figured out: chapters 2,3,4 have no sections, I started text, tables, and figures right afeter \chapter{blabla} (it's still a draft) that's why \rightmark wasn't printing anything. Thank you for helping me figure it out and thank you for your time!