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Changing the font size in fancyhdr

9. October 2012 by tom 4 Comments

The default header with fancyhdr for a book (two-sided by default) displays the chapter at the inner side (left odd, right even) and the section title at the outer side (left even, right odd). For long chapter and/or section titles, the two may overlap. There are several possible workarounds to solve this issue. One may … [Read more…]

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Posted in: LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: book, fancyhdr, fancyhdr font size, font size, LaTeX, long header, overlapping header, report, usepackage




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