Hi,

I'm using Latex to prepare my thesis. The university has specific style guidelines so I have needed to used fancyheader to get my headers and footers in the requested format.

The first page of each chapter was reverting to latex format so I used:
\thispagestyle{empty}

\thispagestyle{fancy}

to get the same headers/footers on the first page of each chapter as on the following ones.

However, I can't seem to use the same work around for the first page of the table of contents and bibliography - any ideas?

I also can't change the format of the 'part' pages.

Basically I need to have the number placed centrally at the top of every page - which was easy to do with fancy header. But the parts, toc and bibliography first pages put the number at the bottom of the page - even with a page style empty.

Please help!
Thanks!!!

It seems that you should use fancyplain.
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As with other packages you can load fancyheadings.sty by putting the following in your preamble:

\usepackage{fancyheadings}

This defines some new pagestyles which you can invoke with:

\pagestyle{fancy}

or

\pagestyle{fancyplain}

The difference between these two is that \fancyplain allows you to retain control over headers and footers even on, say, the first page of a chapter - where normally LaTeX switches to plain.
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(from http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/c...4ling/headers/)

You might want to check if your university already has an sty file for thesis papers (many of them already do). If not, you might want to see if anyone you know (who already submitted his/her thesis) has a good sty file meeting their specifications.

I'm not sure if you've seen this guide:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info...ish/lshort.pdf

It has helped me a lot with LaTeX2e -- verbose and example-driven.

-AM