-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sun 3/14/2010 9:50 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Using document title and author in fancyhdr
>Hello,
>
>I am trying to use the title & author of the document as heading on
>every page. I am using article style & fancyhdr package.
>
>I am using the command \lhead{\title} \rhead{\author} in the preamble,
>but this leads to empty headings (probably because in the preamble
>those are not filled yet). Is there any way to delay expansion of the
>\title and \author macros until shipout time at which point they have
>the right values?
>
>Alternatively, does anyone else know an elegant solution that allows
>me to put the title and author of a document into heading?
>Needs to be automatic - no good to explicitly having to put it there
If the problem is that you don't want to enter the author name two times,
put this in the preamble:
\newcommand{\myauthor}{Author name}
\newcommand{\mytitle}{Title text}
\lhead{\mytitle}
\rhead{\myauthor}
In the author field in the document, insert a tex-box and type
\myauthor
Similiar for the title, where you type \mytitle in a tex box.
Maybe not so elegant on screen, but yields perfectly good output.
If you make a document template, then you won't have to make those
tex boxes all the time. You just set author and title in the preamble,
that's it.
Helge Hafting
