I have two questions according to my Thesis. First, how do I switch margins automatically for every second pages, such as:
Second how do I switch the page numbers and including different text every second pages?
If anyone could help me by doing that, I would appreciate it!
Best regards
This is actually similar to the style I'm using in my thesis. I'm not sure I understood what you mean with "switch margins", but Latex should arrange the margins in a twoside document automatically. If you want to add further space, you can use the option bindingoffset of the geometry package (you only need to change the 0mm in the code below).
To change the footers (and headers) of the page I used the fancyhdr package; i redefined also the plain style to keep consistency throughout the document.
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twoside]{report}
% Page layout
\usepackage[bindingoffset=0mm]{geometry}
% Random text
\usepackage{lipsum}
% Page style
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
% Defining the DEFAULT style
\fancypagestyle{MyStyle}{%
\fancyhead{} %Clean headers
\fancyfoot{} %Clean footers
\fancyfoot[RO]{\leftmark \ {\vrule height 13pt width 1pt} \thepage}
\fancyfoot[LE]{\thepage \ {\vrule height 13pt width 1pt} \MakeUppercase{\chaptername}\ \thechapter}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove header rule
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{\uppercase{##1}}{}}
}
% Redefining the PLAIN style
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
\fancyhead{} %Clean headers
\fancyfoot{} %Clean footers
\fancyfoot[RO]{{\vrule height 13pt width 1pt} \ \thepage}
\fancyfoot[LE]{\thepage \ {\vrule height 13pt width 1pt}}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove header rule
}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{plain}
...pages in plain style...
\pagestyle{MyStyle}
\chapter{First chapter title}
\section{First section}
\lipsum
\section{Second section}
\lipsum
\chapter{Second chapter title}
\section{Third section}
\lipsum
\section{Fourth section}
\lipsum
\end{document}
One thing I noticed is that MyStyle is applied correctly only if there is a previous \pagestyle{plain}; I'm not sure of why this happens, but luckily there are always pages in plain style before the chapters (at least in my thesis), like table of contents, list of figure, etc.
titlesec to increase the blank space before the chapter title.
– MarcoG
Jun 14 '15 at 17:37
documentclass{article} doesn't include chapters, therefore you can't use this style. You could add the section title redefing \rightmark in this way: \renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{\uppercase{##1}}{}} and changing the footer's style with \fancyfoot[RO]{\rightmark \ {\vrule height 13pt width 1pt} \thepage}.
– MarcoG
Jun 16 '15 at 08:53
plain style by default; to modify it, you have to redifine this style (as I did). If you want to add "Chapter 1", for example, you only need \fancyfoot[LE]{\thepage \ {\vrule height 13pt width 1pt} \MakeUppercase{\chaptername}\ \thechapter} (in the plain style). To change the distance between the rule and the text, you could use \hspace{<distance>} between {\vrule...} and the text. Finally, to change the format, it is the same as changing the format inside the body of the document: e.g. \textbf{\leftmark}.
– MarcoG
Jun 17 '15 at 07:23
\small{\MakeUppercase{...}} works fine. By first page, do you mean the initial page of a chapter? If so, then you basically have to copy the code of MyStyle inside the plain redefinition (but in this way you will change all your plain pages). To remove a part of the chapter title, you could use \chapter[Short title]{Long title}, but you'll have Short title also in toc; to avoid this, you can write \chapter{Long title} \chaptermark{Short title} (http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6862/how-can-i-display-a-short-chapter-name-in-the-header-and-a-long-chapter-name-in-t)
– MarcoG
Jun 17 '15 at 08:35
plain style is applied, instead of MyStyle. If you copy the code inside \fancypagestyle{MyStyle}{...} in \fancypagestyle{plain}{...}, you'll get the same footer in every page. But usually this is not recommended, since in the initial pages you can see chapter's number and title easily, and the footer would be useless; moreover, you'll have many plain pages inside your document (first page of table of contents, etc), and changing this style will affect them all.
– MarcoG
Jun 17 '15 at 09:01