General ⇒ Customizing \part

[amyelmo]

Dear all,

I am trying to customize the format of the Part page. For each of my chapters I have:

\chapter{Chapter_Name}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\thispagestyle{fancy}
followed by my 'fancyheader' settings.

However regardless of me setting the \part{Part_Name} preamble to:

\part{Part_Name}
\thispagestyle{empty}

it always gives me the default 'plain' style with the numbers centred at the bottom of the page. Which looks nice, but unfortunately my guidelines state that each page must be numbered in the centre at the top of the page.

I'd be very grateful for any assistance!
Thanks!

[balf]

I've heard that parts can't be customised in the same way as chapters, sections and the like.

Try the titlesec package, which lets you customise parts, chapters, etc. Btw, unless you have to do very special things with fancyheader, you should know that titlesec also has tools for customising headers and footers, and has a companion package called titletoc for customising table of contents, list of figures, .... Take a look at the doc.

Regards,
B.A.

[Juanjo]

It seems that you simply have to redefine the plain style. Look the code at p. 7-8 in the fancyhdr manual, which, once adapted to your needs, can be something like

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\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
\fancyhf{} % clear all header and footer fields
\fancyhead[C]{\bfseries \thepage} % except the center
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}}

This code should go in the preamble, as the remaining header settings.
Of course, all the \thispagesyle commands after \chapter and \part become superfluous and should be removed.