[lug] LaTeX, article, headers and footers

[Timothy C. Klein]

I think you can do \pagestyle{myheadings}, and
then \markright{your Header}
in the preamble.  I don't immediately see how to do footers.  Latex
actually tries to decide on a header and footer automatically, and for
an article I think the foot is the page number, and the header is empty.

Vague and brief, sorry, but I am not LateX/TeX expert.

HTH,

Tim

* D. Stimits (stimits at idcomm.com) wrote:
> Ok, I have a specific question on how to add headers and footers within
> a LaTeX article class. My TeX book (way out of date) shows
> "\headline={whatever}" and "\footline={whatever}". I have an example two
> column article, but have been unable to figure out exactly how the
> syntax works to add this TeX command within a LaTeX document (compiling
> with pdfelatex).
> 
> Now as an example of something I'd like to be able to do, in reading the
> article.cls file, I see several lines that seem to define macros, and
> some other lines that seem to be used for display of macros previously
> defined. A sample of one that is for display of title via an earlier
> definition of title:
>   \def\@maketitle{%
> ...snip...
> 
> I am thinking that an article class probably has some form of header and
> footer display macro, but if not, then the TeX \headline or \footline
> should be possible. How would I figure out where or how I can add
> headers and footers, based on the document class file? And is there some
> simple trick in syntax to allow me to add TeX commands in directly for
> header or footer?
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
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