Page Layout ⇒ Modify header rule length and maintain consistency

[jordi]

Hello,

I'm typesetting a book and there's a page layout question that I'm unable to find out how to implement. I've been modifying certain commands and environments of the book class in order to set a header rule length different from the default size (which is a length equal to \textwidth and a thickness (actually named by LaTeX as "width")). I have tried almost every aspect of fancyhdr.sty (headoffset, headrule, etc.) but I cannot get what this fake images illustrate

Left-odd page:

Left-odd page.

lo.png (10.4 KiB) Viewed 13801 times

Right-even page:

Right-even page.

re.png (24.79 KiB) Viewed 13801 times

Note that I use a symmetrical (sidemargin from odd to even differs) twoside layout.

I'd appreciate some help.
Thanks ppl.

[localghost]

Actually the fancyhdr package offers all the resources to get this work. The inner offset of the head rule has to be shortened by half of the text width. A possible solution is shown below.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{arev}
\usepackage{microtype}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\bfseries\thepage}
\fancyhead[LE]{\small Author Name}
\fancyhead[RO]{\small Compilation Title}
\fancyfoot[LE,RO]{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.5pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancyheadoffset[RE,LO]{-0.5\textwidth}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\begin{document}
  \Blinddocument
\end{document}
 
 
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Note that the reduction of the head width lets you no more place any contents in the inner header of the pages.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[jordi]

I tried different ways to use the \textwidth parameter, but not this... (imho, it is sometimes confusing to use certain parameters inside commands correctly).

Thanks localghost.