Page Layout ⇒ Fancyhdr and \chapter{} page numbering

[adkdk]

To create fancy headers in my document, I'm using fancyhdr package and the following code:

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\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead[LE]{\nouppercase{\leftmark}}
\fancyhead[RO]{\nouppercase{\rightmark}}
\fancyhead[CE,RE,CO,LO]{\ }

This leaves footers (with centered page number) untouched. However, on the page which opens new chapter, page number is missing. To restore number, I have to put

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\thispagestyle{plain}

after each \chapter{}.

Is there any way to do it better? Redefining "plain" style with fancyhdr package is not working - it looks like name of new chapter page style is different.
When fancyhdr is turned off, page numbers are shown on all pages, including chapter opening.

[frabjous]

I don't understand why you'd be getting the empty page style on chapter pages, and I don't understand why redefining the plain page style using the methods described in the fancyhdr package documentation wouldn't work. Could you provide a MWE showing what goes wrong?

Another thing to try would be the \assignpagestyle command from titlesec to reassign \chapter to the fancy page style (or whatever):

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\usepackage{titlesec}
\assignpagestyle{\chapter}{fancy}

or

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\usepackage{titlesec}
\assignpagestyle{\chapter}{plain}

or whatever.

[localghost]

[...] This leaves footers (with centered page number) untouched. However, on the page which opens new chapter, page number is missing. [...]

Always post full examples to enable others to comprehend problems clearly. I can't reproduce the undesired behaviour with your code snippet. On chapter pages the »plain« page style is used by default. The code below works flawlessly.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twoside,english]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{blindtext}

% Page setup (fancyhdr)
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[LE]{\nouppercase{\leftmark}}
\fancyhead[RO]{\nouppercase{\rightmark}}
\fancyfoot[CE,CO]{\thepage}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\begin{document}
  \blinddocument
\end{document}

As frabjous already suggested, you can alternatively use the titlesec package. But don't use it in conjunction with fancyhdr. Decide to use on or the other. The code below shows a similar example.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twoside,english]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[pagestyles,raggedright]{titlesec}
\usepackage{blindtext}

% Page setup (titlesec)
\newpagestyle{main}{%
  \headrule
  \sethead[\chaptername~\thechapter\quad\chaptertitle][][]{}{}{\thesection\quad\sectiontitle}
  \setfoot[][\thepage][]{}{\thepage}{}
}
\pagestyle{main}

\begin{document}
  \blinddocument
\end{document}

I recommend to use titlesec because it is much more flexible.


Best regards
Thorsten

[adkdk]

The problem was with mwrep (a non-standard report) class. After doing some changes in mwrep.cls everything started to work.

I changed:

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 \let\ps@opening\hf@empty
 \let\ps@closing\hf@empty

to

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 \let\ps@opening\hf@plain
  let\ps@closing\hf@plain

and saved this with a custom class name.