From a Header and footer in quarto qmd to pdf I learned it is best to use scrlayer-scrpage
when wanting a footer:
---
title: "Untitled"
author: "Me"
date: "this day"
format:
pdf:
include-in-header:
text: |
\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}
\rohead{Header text}
\lofoot{Footer text}
---
How could I add the author and the date to the footer (left-aligned)? And what would I add to have the pagenummber at footer in bottom-right? Thanks!
I am looking for some code that extracts the author and the date from the YAML, my final code will be living in a template.tex file.
Try the following,
---
title: "Untitled"
author: "Me"
date: today
format:
pdf:
include-in-header:
text: |
\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}
\usepackage{titling}
\clearpairofpagestyles
\lefoot*{\theauthor\hspace{2mm}\thedate}
\lofoot*{\theauthor\hspace{2mm}\thedate}
\refoot*{\pagemark}
\rofoot*{\pagemark}
---
```{r}
#| echo: false
#| results: asis
cat(stringi::stri_rand_lipsum(20), sep = "\n\n")
```
To understand how \lefoot
, \lofoot
, \refoot
, \rofoot
works, please read through the KOMA-Script manual, from p.265 to p.268.