inserting time in the header or footer

[chip]

Hi

I'm having a problem inserting the date into the tufte book header or footer. I actually have a landscape version (that you helped me with a long time ago), but I've not done anything special to the fancy header stuff.

If I put into my preamble:

\pagestyle{fancy}

\fancyfoot{}

\fancyfoot[CO,CE]{\today}

I would expect that I'd get today's date centered on the even and the odd pages in a footer. But nothing happens at all.

First, of course I could be doing this wrong. But I've checked with another fake document and it does what I'd expect.

So is there something in the Tufte class that makes this different?

thanks

Ray Brock

[Kevin Godby]

Hi, Ray.

\documentclass{tufte-handout}% or tufte-book
\title{Test header date}
\author{Kevin M. Godby}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\fancyfoot[CE,CO]{\today}
\maketitle
\lipsum[1-10]
\end{document}

It works okay for me.

Note, however, that the \frontmatter and \mainmatter commands will
reset the running heads and feet.

—Kevin

[Chip Brock]

hi
Thanks, but are you sure it works in the book class?

If I go to the sample-book.tex example and simply add:

\begin{document}

\fancyfoot[CE,CO]{\today}

\fancyhead[CE,CO]{\today}

There is no such footnote or header addition.

Ray

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[Kevin Godby]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 9:05 PM, Chip Brock <raymon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, but are you sure it works in the book class?
>
> If I go to the sample-book.tex example and simply add:
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \fancyfoot[CE,CO]{\today}
> \fancyhead[CE,CO]{\today}
>
> There is no such footnote or header addition.

I tested my example with tufte-book, too. The sample book uses
\frontmatter and \mainmatter which will reset the headers and footers.
You'd need to add your \fancyfoot and \fancyhead macros after each
call to \frontmatter and \mainmatter.

—Kevin

[Chip Brock]

hi

That’s totally it. There is a \mainmatter after \begin{document} and I was putting the fancywherever commands in the preamble.

Thanks, as always,

Ray