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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: LaTeX question: Page headings on first page.
Message-ID: <1991Jun06.102627.10340@cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 6 Jun 91 10:26:27 GMT
References: <1991Jun3.185438.24208@agate.berkeley.edu>
Sender: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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In-Reply-To: nick@candide.berkeley.edu (Nick Socci)


>>>>> nick@candide.berkeley.edu (Nick Socci) (NS) writes:

 NS>     In section C.4.2 (Page Styles) of the LaTeX manual there is a
 NS> comment that on the first page of a document the right head
 NS> information is always null. It then suggest that if this is a problem
 NS> generate a blank page first.

 NS>     Well this is a problem for me, and generating blank pages at the
 NS> beginning of every document is not a great solution. I have tried
 NS> looking in the latex.tex file and the various style files to find a
 NS> better fix but I am stumped.

 NS>     If anyone knows why the first page has a null righthead, and how it 
 NS> might be fixed without  ejecting a blank first page please let me. 

It is because the standard LaTeX styles have the equivalent of a
\markboth{}{} at the beginning of the document. As the right head is always
the first mark specified as such, it cannot be undone. The only way to get
rid of this is to rewrite the style file.

Another option would be to specify the header for the first page yourself,
with \thispagestyle and choose a style that does not use \rightmark. You
might use one of the headings style options for this, e.g. fancyheadings.

How to get fancyheadings.doc and fancyheadings.sty from the archive at
	Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University:

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    usually works.  

by FTP: (please restrict access to weekends or evening/night (i.e. between
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    ftp archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]
    user name: anonymous or ftp
    password: your own email address (e.g. john@highbrow.edu)
    cd /pub
    don't forget to set binary mode if the file is a tar/arc/zoo archive,
    compressed or in any other way contains binary data.
    get TEX/latexstyle/fancyheadings.doc
    get TEX/latexstyle/fancyheadings.sty

by mail-server:

send the following message to
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    begin
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    send TEX/latexstyle/fancyheadings.doc
    send TEX/latexstyle/fancyheadings.sty
    end

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