Text Formatting ⇒ fancyhdr and Koma book class

[Johannes_B]

It took me two hours (with interruptions) so here are my two cents:

You can go with fncychap if you want. It uses commands (like \rm) which are deprecated for right about 20 years now. To be honest, i think it is pretty ugly. Other people are making fun of it as well (but in conjunction with Comic Sans).

I changed your code a bit, please have a close look.

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% arara: lualatexmk
\documentclass[10pt,english,british,twoside,openany]{scrbook}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[automark,headsepline,footsepline=.25pt]{scrlayer-scrpage}
\pagestyle{scrheadings}
\addtokomafont{pageheadfoot}{\slshape}
\addtokomafont{pagehead}{\tiny}
\addtokomafont{pagefoot}{\small}
\addtokomafont{disposition}{\rmfamily}%JB: rm for chapter headings
%\ohead{\MakeUppercase{\leftmark}}%JB: do you REALLY want this
%uppercased?
\ohead{\leftmark}
\ihead{Ben Francis}
\ofoot{\mytitle}
\cfoot{\pagemark}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{ragged2e}
%\usepackage[Lenny]{fncychap}%really ugly
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[british]{babel}
\renewcommand\thepart{\Alph{part}}
%\newcommand{\apostrophe}{\XeTeXglyph\XeTeXcharglyph"0027\relax}
%JB: Since you are using XeTeX, take advantage of fontspec
%JB: LuaTeX and microtype work better together, so LuaLaTeX
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Linux Libertine O}%JB: Just as an example
%\KOMAoptions{open=any}
%\setlength{\headheight}{15.2pt}
%\widowpenalty=300
%\clubpenalty=300
\renewcommand*{\partpagestyle}{empty}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{paperwidth=5.06in,
paperheight=7.81in,
verbose,
tmargin=0.5in,
bmargin=1in,
inner=0.75in,
 
 
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[mike1264]

Many thanks - brilliant!

Mike

[mike1264]

Hi Johannes_b,

First off, thank you for the enormous time and effort you and others have given to my problems with formatting. It really is much appreciated!
I agree with you on the use of 'fancychap' - I have been thinking I would like to remove this because it detracts from the excellent formatting latex provides. The more I have read the comments in this posting from everyone including yourself, I am drawn more and more towards letting latex do the formatting with as little intervention from me. I am learning!
One small problem remains: when I run your code, as is, I can't see any headers or footers. I wonder if I have missed something?

Thanks,
Mike

[Johannes_B]

Hi Mike,

we like to help

Are the headers and footers missing on all pages?
Pages where a chapter starts are set with the plain style, cf. scrguien.pdf
You can change the plain style as well by providing an optional argument to \ohead[plain]{others}.

Titlepages are empty by default.

[mike1264]

Hi Johannes_B,

Regarding the code you provided, just a few questions:

• 1. Where you use "blindtext" in your code, is this adding random text at that point - like lorem ipsum does?

• 2. Where you use "blinddocument" that inserts an example document with example formatting. Should I write in at that point an "addchap" or an "\input" or "\include" with a pointer to one of my chapter files?

• 3. The \marginpar{The times of Love, Peace and Music} statement in the code adds a marginal note - do I need to make the margin larger for this to be included if I need to?

• 4. This statement in the code I didn't understand why it is there: "\iffalse We can better see how the text block is laid out on the page with package showframe. Be aware, that your marginpar column is running out of the page.\fi". I understand it as an 'if-then' statement.

Thanks,
Mike

[mike1264]

A little question,

Can '\marginpar{A note in the margins.}' be assigned to either outer or inner margins?

Cheers,
Mike

[Johannes_B]

Hi Mike,

1. Exactly, just some random text so there is something to see on the page.

2. Not sure what you mean. Where Blinddocument inserts a chapter, you can do the same.

No matter if you use input or include at the point, but there are differences.

Please make a mental note, that \chapter{chapter title} makes a numbered chapter \addchap adds an unnumbered chapter.

3. Exactly, your margin is atm just not big enough to fit a marginpar. If you do not need marginpars, then nevermind.

4. This \iffalse \fi is indeed a conditional. It treats everything inbetween as a comment. This is not very good style but pretty handy in a minimal example. The thing about marginpars have been discussed in 3.

Not sure about the marginpars in inner and outer margin. But i think it is possible using scrlayer-scrpage, or scrlayer-notecolumn. Would need to check that. Please open up a new question for that.

Little hint, use *code* instead of *mwe* to include code.

[mike1264]

Hi Johannes_B ,

Again - thanks!! I'll work on your suggestions this afternoon and finalise the layout.

Mike