Page Layout ⇒ Body Text wrongly written in Header

[fpires]

Hello!

I have tried to create a header with 2 lines: the first one 1.5 cm below the top margin, and the second one 4 cm below the top margin. Well, this task I guess I have solved! The problem is the body text of the document. At the first page, it starts in the header, and not below it! This problem, however, does not occur from the second page on. Please take a look at this mwe:

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report}

\usepackage{helvet}
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\usepackage[brazilian]{babel}

\setlength{\headsep}{5.98mm}
\setlength{\textheight}{212mm}
\setlength{\topmargin}{15mm}
\setlength{\headheight}{9.6pt}
\setlength{\voffset}{-25.4mm}

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\rightmark}{}
\fancyfoot{}

\begin{document}

	\fancyhead[L]{\fontsize{8}{9.6}\selectfont \textbf{Text to the left.}}
	\fancyhead[R]{\fontsize{8}{9.6}\selectfont \textbf{abc\\[24.44mm] Text to the right.}}

	line 1\\ 
	line 2\\
	line 3\\
	line 4\\
	line 5\\
	line 6\\
	line 7\\
	line 8 

	\newpage
	
	line 9\\
	line 10\\
	line 11	

	\newpage
	
	line 12\\
	line 13\\
	line 14	
	
\end{document}

Does the first page of the document work differently in comparison to the others? Please, help me solve this problem!

I thank you all in advance.

Felipe

[Johannes_B]

You should check the log file for warnings. A warning is a wonderful thing, is is a message teling you something is strange.

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Package Fancyhdr Warning: \headheight is too small (9.6pt): 
 Make it at least 87.74654pt.
 We now make it that large for the rest of the document.
 This may cause the page layout to be inconsistent, however.

This is what i get running your example. Adding \setlength{\headheight}{90pt} to your preamble will take care of the problem.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Felipe,

welcome to the forum!

Johannes' suggestion will probably fix it.

I suggest though to use the geometry package for setting text width and height, margin size, and header height. And by the way, normal text lines never need to be ended by \\. A line ending, so a paragraph ending, is done by an empty line in LaTeX. \\ only ends the line but does not end the paragraph - so if they actually are paragraphs, \\ may cause a bad effect.

Stefan

[fpires]

Thank you very much, Johannes and Stefan! You were right, I didn't pay attention to the warning message. Problem solved. Thank you!