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I have the following problem. I am using the report document class to write my master's thesis. My table of content naturally extends to more than more line, and I have page numbers in the top right corner, except for the first page of each section.

The first page of the table of content does not have a page number (this is correct). The second page and on do have the correct page numbers, except that: on the second page, the page number overlaps on the top entry of the table of content. For example, the first entry in the table of content is:

2.6.4 This is the first line on this page........... 29

and the page number (iv) appears directly on top of the 29. How can I prevent this from happening? This doesn't happen on the next page, i.e. the v appears above the top entry and the same is true for page vi.

Here's the relevant part of my preamble:

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\rhead{\thepage}

...

\begin{document}

...

\tableofcontents

...

\end{document}
Luis Negrete
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  • Is your document two-sided? – Bernard Dec 09 '16 at 00:53
  • What other content do you have in the header? Are you getting any warnings/messages from fancyhdr in your .log (something about the header being too big, perhaps)? – Werner Dec 09 '16 at 01:05
  • No, my document is not two-sided. – Luis Negrete Dec 09 '16 at 17:03
  • In my .log file, there's a warning that reads: 
    Package Fancyhdr Warning: \headheight is too small (0.0pt): 
Make it at least 13.59999pt.
We now make it that large for the rest of the document.
This may cause the page layout to be inconsistent, however.
    – Luis Negrete Dec 09 '16 at 17:03

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I was missing the line:

\setlength{\headheight}{14pt}

in my preamble.

Luis Negrete
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