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I've using the fancyhdr package to modify the header and footer. If my \listoffigures spans multiple pages then the header and footer on page one of the LoF is not fancy. The TeX example below demonstrates this.

What am I doing wrong please?

\documentclass{report}

\usepackage[a3paper,landscape]{geometry}

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead{}
\fancyhead[L]{A}
\fancyhead[C]{FANCY}
\fancyhead[R]{HEADER}

\fancyfoot{}
\fancyfoot[L]{A}
\fancyfoot[C]{FANCY}
\fancyfoot[R]{FOOTER}

\begin{document}

\listoffigures\thispagestyle{fancy}

\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage
\begin{figure}[p]\begin{center}qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{center}\end{figure}\clearpage

\end{document}
Stephen
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chris
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    \listoffigures processes the entire list before \thispagestyle{fancy} is seen. the change of style needs to be made before that, probably within the definition of \listoffigures. – barbara beeton Nov 15 '12 at 16:22
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  • Instead of \begin{center}...\end{center} you could use just \centering ... in the figure environment. – Stephen Nov 15 '12 at 16:32
  • Indeed -- see http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2651/should-i-use-center-or-centering-for-figures-and-tables – lockstep Nov 15 '12 at 17:00
  • @Stephen Thanks for the \centering command. – chris Nov 16 '12 at 08:24
  • @barbara beeton Thanks for the response. I only notice this issue when the LoF went over two pages. The following example does appear to honor the \thispagestyle{fancy} command: `\documentclass{report}

    \usepackage{fancyhdr}

    \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhead{} \fancyhead[L]{A} \fancyhead[C]{FANCY} \fancyhead[R]{HEADER}

    \fancyfoot{} \fancyfoot[L]{A} \fancyfoot[C]{FANCY} \fancyfoot[R]{FOOTER}

    \begin{document}

    \listoffigures\thispagestyle{fancy}

    \begin{figure}[p]\centering qwerty\caption{qwerty}\end{figure}\clearpage

    \end{document}`

     – chris Nov 16 '12 at 08:28
  • Apologies, I don't know how to post a code snippet in reply comment, so have stuck it on paste bin here: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=rtJ0NQaC – chris Nov 16 '12 at 08:42

1 Answers1

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The first page in a chapter (and also of the list of figures, which internally uses \chapter) use the plain pagestyle. So you need to redefine it: add

\fancypagestyle{plain}{
  \fancyhead{}
  \fancyhead[L]{A}
  \fancyhead[C]{FANCY}
  \fancyhead[R]{HEADER}

  \fancyfoot{}
  \fancyfoot[L]{A}
  \fancyfoot[C]{FANCY}
  \fancyfoot[R]{FOOTER}
}

after the similar settings you already do.

If the two page styles are really identical, then saying

\makeatletter
\let\ps@plain\ps@fancy
\makeatother

will make calling the plain page style equivalent to calling the fancy page style. With the method of redefining the plain style described above you get much more flexibility.

egreg
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    Thanks for the response. Chapter 7 of the fancyhdr user manual talks about this plain style. Is there a way I can copy my fancy style to plain, without having to repeat all the commands? Something like plain = fancy, instead of two identical definitions, one for fancy, one for plain? – chris Nov 16 '12 at 08:21
  • @chris Added the "simpler way". – egreg Nov 16 '12 at 10:24