General ⇒ Customising page layouts

[galaxyflip]

Dear All,

I have a series of issues all relating to how I can customise the layout of individual pages without affecting the rest of the document.

1. On some pages I have very large plots with many panels and due to losing resolution if I shrank the figure further, I am forced to fill most of the page with the figure. The result is the caption fills in the footspace, when the document also numbers the page at the center of the footspace.

2. My acknowledgements and abstract just go over a page and would prefer to have them on the one side by moving the section title further up the page instead of a quarter or third the way down.

- I tried to begin getting round the first problem by adding \thispagestyle{empty} at numerous points in the text where the figure is placed, none of which, empty the footer of the page with the figure, only the previous or next pages. Why does this happen? and what can I do to change it?

- I would prefer to show the page number and so I tried to create my own page style definition by installing 'fancyhdr', but latex did not understand any of my atempts at this. Examples I have tried in the Preamble are:

1.

\newcommand{\ps@myfooter}{%
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhfoffset{\marginparsep+\marginparwidth}
\rhead{}
\lhead{}
\chead{}
\rfoot{\thepage}
\lfoot{}
\cfoot{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
}


2.

\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhfoffset{\marginparsep+\marginparwidth}
\rfoot{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
}

- I have found most authors do not agree on one way to do this, and its usually not clear where the definition should go. So am I putting these definitions in the right place?

- I know what definitely would be useful is to find where Latex has its empty and other page style definition?

So if anyone has a foolproof way (as I am a bit of a fool) of customising page layouts, I would be extremely grateful for your help

Thank you all for your time and I look forward to hearing from you.

[localghost]

Here you are much more specific than in your request in the other forum [1]. Perhaps Section 14 (Special page layout for float pages, p. 14f) of the fancyhdr documentation can be helpful.

The second issue could be solved by searching the forum for \makechapterhead. I remember that we had a similar request here some time ago.

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Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹