Page Layout ⇒ Subsection Titles in Header of first Page

[LavaTyper]

Greetings!

I have been searching for hours on trying to figure out why I cannot get a subsection title to appear on the first page of my document.

I have loaded fancyhdr and use \pagestyle{fancy} but I cannot get the subsection to appear when I use \rightmark.

There was a thread posted in 2009 on this very same topic, but no one responded to this person's inquiry.

I am stuck in the same boat, and I couldn't find an answer for why I still have this problem when I did several comprehensive general internet searches and various placements of \pagestyle{fancy} and other related commands.

What's going on?

Here is an example.

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}


\begin{document}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead[L]{}
\fancyhead[R]{\rightmark}
% This won't work on first page and I cannot for the life of me figure out why.
\thispagestyle{fancy} % doesn't matter where I put this


\section{Section title}

\subsection{I want this at the top of all pages including the first}

% subsection not present at the top of the first page

Stuff on the first page

Second paragraph of the first page

\newpage

% subsection is present at the top of the second page

Second page text

\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

A quick fix would be using \markright or \markboth, such as:

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\clearpage
\markright{Text you want}
\section{Section title}
\subsection{I want this at the top of all pages including the first}

Section starting pages are a bit different. However, one could use \subsectionmark or \sectionmark within the argument to \section. But the subsection counter is still not at the desired value at this position. The first fix would help though.

Stefan