HowTo_PageHeadFoot

How change the head and foot of the page

In KOMA-Script the header and footer of the page is mainly controlled by the page style. The classes usually provide four page styles:

empty — no running head, no page number (actually provided by the LaTeX kernel),
plain — usually only page number (the style from the LaTeX kernel is overloaded by the KOMA-Script classes to provide additional features),
headings — automatic running head and page number,
myheadings — manual running head and page number.

The styles plain, headings and myheadings are configurable within certain limits. If you want more, you need an additional package like scrlayer, scrlayer-scrpage or fancyhdr or scrlayer-fancyhdr . For the use with KOMA-Script classes mainly scrlayer-scrpage is recommended, because various possibilities of the KOMA-Script classes are supported automatically, whereas with the other packages the user is increasingly responsible for this himself. The least support the user gets is when using fancyhdr. Therefore, the classes warn that some things do not work (automatically) when using this package and recommend to use scrlayer-scrpage instead. Accordingly, this warning also exists when using scrlayer-fancyhdr.

• How to enable automatic running heads (repetition of top level headers) with class scrartcl or scrreprt
• How to insert a separator between header and text area
• How to insert a separator between text area and footer
• How to move the separator between text area and footer a little bit upwards
• How to move the page number from the page footer to the header
• How to move the page number to the middle of the foot for a double-sided document
• How to move the page number to the right for a single-sided document
• How to move the page number outside flush for a single-sided document
• How to set a background color for the page header
• How to insert a horizontal bar, colon or other separator between the chapter number and title in the page header
• How to add horizontal lines to page numbers in the header or footer
• How to separate the page number in the head with a vertical line
• How to separate the page number in the foot by vertical lines falling off the edges
• How to display the chapter number on the outside and the chapter title on the inside of the page header
• How to use a page style with scrlayer-scrpage in multiple documents without having to copy its definition from one document to another
• How to ensure that \thispagestyle is executed on the correct page