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In article <1992Apr9.004718.11370@uwm.edu>, andrew@csd4.csd.uwm.edu 
(Andy Biewer) writes:
> I'm stymied.  What I'm trying to do is get latex to put a custom header in
> my document modelled as follows:
> 
> TOPIC                                                                     P
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Where `TOPIC' is the current document section (which can be changed by
> changing the value of a new variable, say, \headtopic), `P' is the
> current page number, and the line goes from the left margin to the right
> margin.  Of course, I'd like to get it to do twosided printing, so for even
> pages, things would be switched, or vice-versa.  I've tried the \markboth
> command with \pagestyle{myheadings}, but cannot figure it out.
> .....

Yes, there is:

use between \documentstyle[ ]{} and \begin{document} this:

\makeatletter
\def\ps@myheadings{\let\@mkboth\markboth
\def\@oddfoot{}\def\@evenfoot{}
\def\@evenhead{\protect\underline{
 \hbox \to\hsize{\thepage\hfil \leftmark}}}
\def\@oddhead{\protect\underline{
 \hbox to\hsize{\rightmark\hfil \thepage}}}
\def\chaptermark##1{\markboth{\ifnum \c@secnumdepth>\m@ne
 \thechapter. \ \fi ##1}{}}
\def\sectionmark##1{\markright{\ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\z@
 \thesection \ \fi ##1}}}
\makeatother
%
\pagestyle{myheadings}
%----------------------------------

I have just recently tried this out and works fine. I haven't found out yet,
how you can change the TOPIC by a variable \headtopic (for example).

I`d say with \markright{TOPIC} it should work (I haven't tried it out so far).

If you want to play around a bit, you can use different fontstyles.
Just put a \it, or \sc, or whatever in the definition of
\@oddhead and \@evenhead.

You can also center the TOPIC by putting another \hfil  after \leftmark in the
def. of \@evenhead, and another \hfil before \rightmark in the def. of
\@oddhead.


If you want to use this stuff in a style file, you don`t need the \makeatletter
and \makeatother commands.


BTW., sometimes, and sometimes not, LaTeX makes the \underline 3.65 pt too
      wide. Any idea why? 

Hope that helps.
 
Alexander                                <minidis@urz.unibas.ch>
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