[texhax] Question about fancyplain from the fancyhdr package.

[Rolf Turner]

I am required to produce a document which has:

	* top centred page numbers on ***all but the first page***
	* a top right text string on ***all*** pages.

I cannot for the life of me get fancyhdr to produce this.

According to the documentation I read, something like

\chead{\fancyplain{}{\thepage}}

should give the page number when \thispagestyle is ***not*** empty
and a blank when it is empty.  This doesn't seem to happen.

Have I misinterpreted the documentation?  Is there any way to
produce the desired structure?

I present a minimal example of what I've tried below.
If ``\thispagestyle{empty}'' is commented out, then
I get both the page number and the text string in the
upper right hand corner on the first page.  If it is
not commented out then I get completely blank headers;
neither the page number nor the text string in the upper
right.

Is there any way to get the text string and ***not*** the
page number on the first page (but both for succeeding pages)?

Thanks.

	cheers,

		Rolf Turner

Example:
========

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\setlength{\headheight}{18pt}
\pagestyle{fancyplain}
\fancyhf{}
\chead{\fancyplain{}{\thepage}}
\rhead{\fancyplain{Melvin}{Melvin}}
\cfoot{\fancyplain{}{}}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\begin{document}
%\thispagestyle{empty}
A load of dingos' kidneys \ldots \ldots ~ .

\pagebreak
More dingos' kidneys \ldots \ldots ~ .

\pagebreak
And yet more \ldots \ldots ~ .
\end{document}


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