Overriding Footers in LatexPDF output

[mtgstuber]

I'm using Sphinx-Doc to document a specification. On the HTML pages it's very easy to add a copyright statement. Adding it to the PDF has been more challenging.

In my conf.py I've added the following:

latex_elements = {
        'extraclassoptions': 'openany',
        'preamble': r'''
\makeatletter
  \fancypagestyle{normal}{
    \fancyhf{}
    \fancyfoot{}
    \fancyfoot[LO,LE]{\thepage}
    \fancyfoot[RO,RE]{Copyright 2025 XXXX}
    \fancyhead[LO,LE]{{\py@HeaderFamily \@title}}
    \fancyhead[RO,RE]{{\py@HeaderFamily \py@release}}
    \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
    \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
  }
\makeatother
''',
}

It appears that the behavior in sphinxlatexstylepage overrides my settings when on the first page of a chapter. On later pages I get the formatting I want, but not on the first page of each chapter. This is a problem, especially when some chapters only have a single page. How do I override the override? I'm not a LaTex geek. It took a lot of searching and experimenting to get this far, and now I'm stuck. Help!

[AA-Turner]

Are you using the copyright config value to set the copyright statement?

[mtgstuber]

The copyright config value is set. It works great for the HTML output. The LaTexPDF output doesn't use it at all, which is why I went with a custom footer. Any one have a thought on how to override the behavior of sphinxlatexstylepage?

[mtgstuber]

I figured out how to do it. I'm documenting it here for posterity.

• In my source directory I created a latex directory.
• I copied over the default sphinxlatexstylepage.sty from build/latex to my source/latex directory
• In conf.py I added `latex_additonal_files = [ 'latex/sphinxlatexstylepage.sty' ]
• Then I modified my latex/sphinxlatexstylepage.sty to meet my needs

It would be great if the default style could be tuned from conf.py with some well defined settings, but this override gets the job done.