General ⇒ no headers at first page of chapter

[Coen]

Hello all,

My thesis is very near to completion and somehow I just found out that there is a header at the first page of my chapters, I do not want that!

this is the main file that I have created:

\

documentclass[a4paper,11pt,oneside,fleqn]{book}
\usepackage[numbers, square, sort]{natbib}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[pdftex]{color, graphicx}
\usepackage{color, graphicx, multirow, longtable, subfigure}
\usepackage{natbib}
\bibpunct{[}{]}{;}{a}{,}{,}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{appendix}
\usepackage{alltt}
\usepackage{lastpage}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{caption}



\pagestyle{fancy}
\lhead{}
\chead{}
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{#1}{}}
\lfoot{\includegraphics[width=0.15\textwidth]{plaatjes/logosie.jpg}}
\cfoot{\vspace{0.4cm} \thepage}
\rfoot{\includegraphics[width=0.15\textwidth]{plaatjes/logotu.jpg} }
\textheight 625pt
\textwidth 440pt
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{10pt}
\setlength{\evensidemargin}{10pt}
\setlength{\footskip}{40pt}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt} %parapraphs with no indentation
\renewcommand{\headwidth}{\textwidth}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.5pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.5pt}

\newenvironment{packed_item}{
\begin{itemize}
\setlength{\itemsep}{1pt}
\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}
\setlength{\parsep}{0pt}
}{\end{itemize}}

\newenvironment{packed_enum}{
\begin{enumerate}
\setlength{\itemsep}{1pt}
\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}
\setlength{\parsep}{0pt}
}{\end{enumerate}}

does anyone know what command to use to avoid a header on this page (thus not removing the footer)

Thanks!!

Coen

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Coen,

that code doesn't cause the headers on chapter starting pages. When I completed it to make it compilable those pages did not get headers, they used the plain page style.
We need more information to be able to help you, please post a compilable minimal working example showing the headers.

Stefan

[Coen]

All right, hopefully now i give enough information: i included the main file and the first chapter/introduction. Hopefully this will be enough. Thanks for the help!

cheers,

Coen

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Coen,

it's caused by

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\fancypagestyle{plain}

in line 93 of Main.tex, that command was not shown in your first message. Remove it and the header will not be shown at the first page of a chapter. But the footer will also vanish then. To keep the footer but remove the header you could use this code in your preamble instead:

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\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
\fancyhf{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\lfoot{\includegraphics[width=0.15\textwidth]{logo}}
\cfoot{\vspace{0.4cm}\thepage}
\rfoot{\includegraphics[width=0.15\textwidth]{logo}}
}

Stefan

[Coen]

That did the trick! Thanks!

It may sound a bit lazy but do you happen to have a solution to make the page numbering of the appendices start with A1, A2 -- A15, B1, B2 etc etc?

Next friday the job has to be done so I'm sort of running out of time to browse the internet for a solution.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Coen,

try this directly after \appendix:

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\let\stdchaptermark\chaptermark
\renewcommand*\chaptermark[1]{\stdchaptermark{#1}\setcounter{page}{1}}
\renewcommand*\thepage{\thechapter\arabic{page}}

I just used \chaptermark to reset the page counter and redefined how it's displayed.

Stefan