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LaTeX Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   LaTeX Beginner's Guide When there‚Äôs a scientific or technical paper to write, the versatility of LaTeX is very attractive. But where can you learn about the software? The answer is this superb beginner‚Äôs guide, packed with examples and explanations.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847199867
Length 336 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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LaTeX
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with LaTeX FREE CHAPTER 2. Formatting Words, Lines, and Paragraphs 3. Designing Pages 4. Creating Lists 5. Creating Tables and Inserting Pictures 6. Cross-Referencing 7. Listing Content and References 8. Typing Math Formulas 9. Using Fonts 10. Developing Large Documents 11. Enhancing Your Documents Further 12. Troubleshooting 13. Using Online Resources Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – customizing headers with the fancyhdr package


The default shape of the page headings is slanted. Furthermore, they are written in capital letters. We shall use bold typeface instead and we will use capital letters only for the chapter title. We will load the fancyhdr package and use its commands to achieve that:

  1. Load the first version of our example. Insert the highlighted lines:

    \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{book}
    \usepackage[english]{babel}
    \usepackage{blindtext}
    \usepackage{fancyhdr}
    \fancyhf{}
    \fancyhead[LE]{\leftmark}
    \fancyhead[RO]{\nouppercase{\rightmark}}
    \fancyfoot[LE,RO]{\thepage}
    \pagestyle{fancy}
    \begin{document}
    \chapter{Exploring the page layout}
    In this chapter we will study the layout of pages.
    \section{Some filler text}
    \blindtext
    \section{A lot more filler text}
    More dummy text will follow.
    \subsection{Plenty of filler text}
    \blindtext[10]
    \end{document}
  2. Typeset—the footers will contain the page number on their outer side and the headers should look like the...

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