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I know I can do

\maketitle
\thispagestyle{fancy}

But I want my custom class that I am making (based on article) to do this for me. It already does pagestyle{fancy}, but I can't get it to change the first page.

I tried (adding this to myclass.cls)

\AtBeginDocument{\thispagestyle{fancy}}

but that didn't work.

I also tried redefining \maketitle and adding it at the end:

\def\@maketitle{%
    \newpage
    \null
    \vskip 2em%
    \begin{center}%
    \let \footnote \thanks
        {\LARGE \@title \par}%
        \vskip 1.5em%
        {\large
            \lineskip .5em%
            \begin{tabular}[t]{c}%
                \@author
            \end{tabular}\par%
        }% 
        \vskip 1em%
        {\large \@date}%
    \end{center}%                                                                
    \par
    \vskip 1.5em%
    \thispagestyle{fancy} %%%%%%%%%%%%% HERE
}

but that didn't work either.

mk12
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  • I've added what I tried with \maketitle in the post. I copied the code from http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/844/8289, and found that it did not change the appearance so it must be right (but of course the line I added in didn't change anything either, when it should have). – mk12 Jun 27 '12 at 22:36

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It wouldn't matter adding \thispagestyle{fancy} at the end of \@maketitle, since \maketitle issues \thispagestyle{plain} after calling \@maketitle, overriding any styles you set within \@maketitle.

Add the following to your class, after loading fancyhdr and the definition of \maketitle (or loading article, if you're not defining \maketitle yourself):

\g@addto@macro{\maketitle}{\thispagestyle{fancy}}

This appends \thispagestyle{fancy} after \maketitle. And, since article doesn't issue a page break after \maketitle, you should still be on the same page, making the above additional valid.

Werner
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  • Thank you :). And thanks for the explanation as well. I was wondering if there was a way to add to macros like that, I'm sure I'll find this useful in other places too. – mk12 Jun 27 '12 at 22:38