Partial rule over footer page numbers

Question

I am using KOMA's scrreprt together with fancyhdr and want my page numbers on the outside of each page. So I use:

\fancyfoot[LE,RO]{\thepage}

which works as expected. Now, how do I add a short horizontal line (rule) above the page number? The rule should cover about one third of the page width.

@Bernard: Of the paper width. Also, the line should start at the paper edge. — user1583209, Jul 17 '20 at 22:18

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 18 '20 at 05:10

please see if this suits your requirement -- code edited from -- short vertical line in footer fancyhdr

You can experiment with \hspace{-4cm} for moving the entire line left or right toward the page margins

You can experiment with \rule[10pt]{7cm}{6pt} to change the length height and thickness of the line alone

Disadvantages of using fancyhdr with KOMA are given at the website shortcut provided at top

\documentclass[12pt, a4paper,twoside,footheight=23pt]{scrreprt}
\usepackage{blindtext}% only for dummy text
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}% sets pagestyle scrheadings automatically
\clearpairofpagestyles
\rofoot*{\vfootline\hspace{-4cm}\pagemark}
\lefoot*{\pagemark\hspace{-4cm}\vfootline}% for twosided document
\newlength\linepagesep
\setlength{\linepagesep}{5pt}
\newcommand*\vfootline{\textcolor{blue}{\rule[10pt]{7cm}{6pt}}}
\begin{document}
    \blinddocument
\end{document}
Other example

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 18 '20 at 22:34

I would suggest to use package scrlayer-scrpage which is part of the KOMA-Script bundle. Then you can enable the footsepline and adjust its layer:

\documentclass[
  twoside
]{scrreprt}
\usepackage{blindtext}% only for dummy text
\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}% sets pagestyle scrheadings automatically
\clearpairofpagestyles
\ofoot*{\pagemark}
\KOMAoptions{
  footsepline=1pt:.3333\paperwidth,% syntax: footsepline=<thickness>:<length>
  plainfootsepline,
  olines
}
\ModifyLayer[
  hoffset=0pt,
  width=\paperwidth,
  addvoffset=-5pt% move the line up
]{scrheadings.foot.above.line}
\RedeclareLayer[
  clone=scrheadings.foot.above.line
]{plain.scrheadings.foot.above.line}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\addtokomafont{footsepline}{\color{red!50!black}}
\begin{document}
\blinddocument
\end{document}

Partial rule over footer page numbers

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