Make {page-style} a synonym of {header-footer}

Question

Customizing the header and footer of documents consists of two tasks which are closely intertwined:

• Choosing the default page style (e.g. empty, plain and headings) and choosing the page style for "special" (e.g. chapter-starting) pages. This is normally done using the commands \pagestyle and \thispagestyle. Some classes also provide macros for "special" page styles (e.g. KOMA-script's \chapterpagestyle).

• Customizing the chosen page styles, especially headings. This is done either using the commands \markboth and \markright, or with the help of the packages fancyhdr or scrpage2.

At the moment, there are 77 questions tagged with header-footer, 26 questions tagged with page-style and no questions tagged with markboth or markright. Looking at all those questions, it seems that header-footer is used as sort of a general tag, i.e. also for questions that involve page styles:

• How to remove header on the page with big picture?

• How to change the position of the page number in the first page of every chapter of a book?

On the other hand, page-style is sometimes used for questions that don't involve page styles (or headers and footers) at all:

• The same height of text in a large document

• Changing the paper size

I propose that, after skimming through the questions tagged with page-style and retagging them when appropriate, page-style should be made a synonym of the more general header-footer tag, and existing questions should be merged.

Answer 1

As about two weeks have passed and my proposal has gained some upvotes, I will start skimming through the questions tagged with page-style and retagging those which don't involve page styles or headers and footers at all. After that, page-style may be made a synonym of header-footer.

Here's my proposal for the "unified" header-footer tag wiki excerpt:

{header-footer} is about customizing the header and footer of documents. This involves choosing the appropriate page style for certain pages (e.g. empty, plain, headings) and (for the page styles employed) placing information like the current chapter/section title and page number. Popular packages are {fancyhdr} and {scrpage2}.

EDIT: I have finishing skimming and (where appropriate) retagging questions tagged with page-style. There are 20 such questions left; 12 of them already feature the header-footer tag in addition to page-style. The tag wiki excerpts have also been updated (i.e. in case of page-style changed to a notice that this tag should no longer be used). I now ask a moderator to make page-style a synonym of header-footer and to merge the existing questions.