Different width of header/footer than body

[Andreas Almroth]

G'day netfolks,

This could very well be a basic question for you to answer,
but please bare with me...

I'm currently writing a document using the book style in
LaTeX 2e, and I would like to use a much wider header
than the main body. Kind of like the same as in
Leslie Lamport's "LaTeX: A Document Preparation System".
Let's say that the header is 16,5cm wide, while the body i just
14cm wide.
I've read through "The not so short introduction to LaTeX"
and only found a reference to \headheight, but nothing about
\headwidth...

Well, any help or pointers...

Best regards,
Andreas Almroth

[Sebastien Perez-Duarte]

From LaTeX Companion, p.99:

Put
\addtolength{\headwidth}{\marginparsep}
\addtolength{\headwidth}{\marginparwidth}

in your preamble (probably needs fancyheadings, or fancyhdr as it is now
called).

S.

Andreas Almroth a écrit dans le message ...

[Massimiliano Zecca]

Give a look at the package FANCYHDR and its documentation: I
think it will help you.

Happy TeXing
Massimiliano

[Karl Heinz Marbaise]

Hi Sebastien!
At 21 Sep 99 wrote Sebastien Perez-Duarte an All
About theme "Re: Different width of header/footer than body":

SP> Put
SP> \addtolength{\headwidth}{\marginparsep}
SP> \addtolength{\headwidth}{\marginparwidth}
This does not solve the problem, because this way both the header and the
footer width are changed and not only the header.

I have this done with a patch to fanchdr for my masterthesis.

If someone is interessed in, I can send it.

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[Andreas Almroth]

Karl Heinz Marbaise <ka...@hippo.fido.de> skrev i
diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:MSGID_242=3A1000=2F1.18=40FidoNet_b211c735@Fido
.DE...

> Hi Sebastien!
> At 21 Sep 99 wrote Sebastien Perez-Duarte an All
> About theme "Re: Different width of header/footer than body":
>
>
> SP> Put
> SP> \addtolength{\headwidth}{\marginparsep}
> SP> \addtolength{\headwidth}{\marginparwidth}
> This does not solve the problem, because this way both the header and the
> footer width are changed and not only the header.

It solved my problem!

Well, the problem was not really different width of header and footer,
I just wanted a wider header than the main body, because I'm not using the
footer at all.