Page Layout ⇒ Header/Footer Problem

[gdickens]

I am working on a book that needs a header and footer on every page, including the opening chapter page. The left-hand page needs to have the word "CHAPTER" and the chapter number; the right-hand side page needs to have the chapter title only (no uppercase). The problem I am having is that the chapter title in the right-hand header is all uppercase. Also, I do not know how to get the header on the opening chapter page. This is what I have been using:

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\setlength{\headheight}{15pt}

\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyfoot{}
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{#1}{}}
\fancyhead[RO]{\series \nouppercase \leftmark}
\fancyhead[LE]{\series {\MakeUppercase\chaptername \ \thechapter} \rightmark}
\fancyfoot[LE,RO]{\thepage}


Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated!

[localghost]

I'd prefer the titlesec package for customizing pages styles because it is more flexible than fancyhdr. If I understood you right, the code below should do what you want.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[pagestyles]{titlesec}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{microtype}

\newpagestyle{main}{%
  \sethead[\MakeUppercase{\chaptername}\quad\thechapter][][]{}{}{\chaptertitle}
  \setfoot[\thepage][][]{}{}{\thepage}
  \headrule
}
\assignpagestyle{\chapter}{main}
\pagestyle{main}

\begin{document}
  \Blinddocument
\end{document}

The titlesec package offers much more stuff which is explained in its manual.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten