Page Layout ⇒ Problem with fancyhdr

[M.A]

Hello Everybody!

I have strange problem with fancyhdr. I generated a header with certain header separation. However, the header separation is correct for all the document except its first occurrence!

Here is a minimal example:

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\documentclass[12pt,oneside]{book}


\usepackage{fullpage,fancyhdr,lipsum}
 
\pagestyle{fancy} 
\addtolength{\headsep}{15pt}

\chead{} \cfoot{} \lfoot{} \rfoot{}
 \rhead{\textbf{\thepage}}
 \lhead{\chaptername \ \thechapter}

\begin{document}

\chapter{This the title of chapter 1}
 \lipsum[1-20]
 
 \chapter{This the title of chapter 2}
 \lipsum[1-20]
\end{document} 

Note: the command lipsum generates dummy text only.

The attached images highlight the problem.

[frabjous]

The problem seems to be caused by the fullpage package. I'd drop it and try to achieve the same thing with the geometry package (with margin=1in, for example). The geometry package has a lot more options, and you'll probably want to read the package documentation.

Note that by default there is spacing between the header and the first line of text--even more with your line \addtolength{\headsep}{15pt}! But with geometry it will be consistent and controllable. You can change it by changing \headsep. I think things look poor if you leave no space at all between the header and the text, but maybe something like 0.5ex would do.

Try, e.g.:

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\documentclass[12pt,oneside]{book}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\setlength{\headsep}{0.5ex}
\usepackage{fancyhdr,lipsum}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\chead{} \cfoot{} \lfoot{} \rfoot{}
\rhead{\textbf{\thepage}}
\lhead{\chaptername \ \thechapter}

\begin{document}

\chapter{This the title of chapter 1}
\lipsum[1-20]

\chapter{This the title of chapter 2}
\lipsum[1-20]
\end{document} 

[M.A]

I tried geometry package upon your suggestion. It worked with me and things are consistent now.
Thank you very much for help.

Best Regards,
M.A