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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 5-4-9 on page I-403 in "fancyhdr --- Customizing page styles".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See
https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%
\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{102.60104pt}
\setlength\textheight{10\baselineskip}
% for the book examples we shorten the vertical spaces
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}%
{-2.ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
{1.ex \@plus.2ex}%
{\normalfont\large\bfseries}}
\renewcommand\subsection{\@startsection{subsection}{2}{\z@}%
{-1.5ex\@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
{0.5ex \@plus .2ex}%
{\normalfont\bfseries}}
\makeatother
\addtolength\headsep{-12pt} % shortened for the book
\addtolength\footskip{-12pt} % shortened for the book
\usepackage{microtype}
\tolerance=3000 % as these examples are so small
\newcommand\sample{ Some text
for our page that we reuse.}
%% drop one page in the book example
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead[LO]{\LastMark{2e-left}}
\fancyhead[RO]{\LastMark{2e-right}}
\fancyhead[LE]{\FirstMark{2e-left}}
\fancyhead[RE]{\FirstMark{2e-right}}
%StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
% \sample defined as before
\setcounter{page}{5}
\section{A1} \newpage
% Above makes a section on
% page 5 (not displayed)
\subsection{B1} \sample\sample
\section{A2} \sample\sample
\subsection{B2} \sample\sample
\section{A3} \sample\sample
\end{document}