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In Showcase of beautiful typography done in TeX & friends Marc van Dongen shows his book LaTeX and Friends, https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/46348/15360.

He uses a specific page header as can be seen in the pictures he shows us.

Page number <vertical rule> Chapter number

or

Chapter name <vertical rule> Page number

I really like it and would like to get the same format or very similar to it if possible and was wondering how this can be achieved?

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2 Answers2

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One option using fancyhdr and the offsets provided by the package. Using

\fancyhfoffset[OR,EL]{\dimexpr\marginparsep+\marginparwidth\relax}

the headers are offset by an amount equal to \marginparsep+\marginparwidth to the right on odd-numbered pages and to the left on even-numbered ones. Then the actual headers are placed using

\fancyhead[OR]{\textsc{\leftmark}\quad\smash{\rule[-.2ex]{1pt}{4cm}}\quad\thepage}
\fancyhead[EL]{\thepage\quad\smash{\rule[-.2ex]{1pt}{4cm}}\quad\textsc{\chaptername~\thechapter}}
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{#1}{}}

A complete example code:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhfoffset[OR,EL]{\dimexpr\marginparsep+\marginparwidth\relax}
\fancyhead[OR]{\textsc{\leftmark}\quad\smash{\rule[-.2ex]{1pt}{4cm}}\quad\thepage}
\fancyhead[EL]{\thepage\quad\smash{\rule[-.2ex]{1pt}{4cm}}\quad\textsc{\chaptername~\thechapter}}
\renewcommand\headrulewidth{0pt}
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{#1}{}}

\begin{document}

\chapter{Test chapter}
\lipsum[1-40]

\end{document}

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  • Instead of \enspace\enspace you could use \quad. By the way, I don't know where I read it (and how “important” it is) but \enskip is the LaTeX preferred way, instead of \enspace. – Manuel May 26 '14 at 01:48
  • @Manuel I changed to \quad. In this case, there's no difference between \enspace and \enskip; both are kernel commands: the former is a \kern: \def\enspace{\kern.5em } the other is a \hskip: \def\enskip{\hskip.5em\relax}. – Gonzalo Medina May 26 '14 at 01:57
  • Using \enspace may be dangerous if it happens to fall at where a paragraph should start, because it would issue a vertical space; \enskip would start horizontal mode, instead, but allowing a line break. A header is normally typeset in restricted horizontal mode, so there's no difference between the two, in that case. – egreg May 26 '14 at 09:27
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I've tried to rebuild this with pure komascript and came to this solution:

\documentclass[DIV=10,twoside]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[automark]{scrlayer-scrpage}
\usepackage{ragged2e}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{layout}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{XCharter}
\usepackage{cabin}
\pagestyle{headings}
\setkomafont{pageheadfoot}{\normalfont\sffamily\scshape}
\setkomafont{pagenumber}{\normalfont\sffamily}

%setting lengths
\newlength{\ruleWidth}
\setlength{\ruleWidth}{2pt}
\newlength{\pageNumperSpace}
\setlength{\pageNumperSpace}{35pt}
\newlength{\pageNumberHeaderSkip}
\setlength{\pageNumberHeaderSkip}{-\paperwidth+\textwidth+\hoffset+1in+\oddsidemargin}
\newlength{\chapterHeaderSkip}
\setlength{\chapterHeaderSkip}{\pageNumberHeaderSkip+1em+\pageNumperSpace+\ruleWidth}

% scrlayer definitions
\rohead{\smash{\textcolor{black}{\rule[-4pt]{\ruleWidth}{\voffset+\topmargin+\headheight+1in}}}\makebox[\pageNumperSpace][c]{\oldstylenums\pagemark}\hspace{\pageNumberHeaderSkip}}
\lehead{\hspace{\pageNumberHeaderSkip}\makebox[\pageNumperSpace][c]{\oldstylenums\pagemark}\smash{\textcolor{black}{\rule[-4pt]{\ruleWidth}{\voffset+\topmargin+\headheight+1in}}}}
\cohead{\raggedleft{\headmark} \hspace{\chapterHeaderSkip}}
\cehead{\hspace{\chapterHeaderSkip} \raggedright{\headmark} }

\begin{document}
\Blinddocument
\end{document}

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