fancyhdr, headers length

[Panos N.]

Hi,

I use the package fancyhdr in order to place headers and footers in a
document. My problem is that the header's length doesn't cover the whole
page but just half of it...

The output is like this :

header page x
---------------------------------------

text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text

---------------------------------------
footer

I use the following commands to create the header :
Code:

\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\lhead{some text}
\chead{}
\rhead{some text}
\lfoot{}
\cfoot{some text}
\rfoot{}

Thank you in advance

[José Carlos Santos]

Without a minimal example, it is hard to say what's the cause, but
my guess is that you changed the value of \textwidth after your
commands to create the head and the footer, and not before, as you
should have done. Like this:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}

\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\lhead{some text}
\chead{}
\rhead{some text}
\lfoot{}
\cfoot{some text}
\rfoot{}

\setlength{\textwidth}{127mm}
\begin{document}
\section{Something}
Something. Something. Something. Something. Something.
Something. Something. Something. Something. Something.
Something. Something. Something. Something. Something.
\end{document}

If you put the line \setlength{\textwidth}{127mm} *before* the line
\pagestyle{fancy}, then all goes well.

Best regards,

Jose Carlos Santos

[Lars Madsen]

just a guess here (since you ddn't provide a minimal example)

do you ajust the textwidth later in the document??
in that case try altering the dimentions first and then define your headers.

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[Panos N.]

Thanks Jose,

This was finally the problem.