Text Formatting ⇒ Preventing text wrapping in fancyhdr headers

[gkamel]

Hello,

I am using fancyhdr to print the section and subsection name as follows

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\fancyhead{\leftmark~::~\rightmark}

however, fancyhdr wraps it just before the text reaches the centre header position. Is there a way of preventing the text from wrapping? I have checked the manual, these forums, and googled it, but no joy.

Thanks a lot.

[localghost]

Putting the header contents into a box might help.

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\fancyhead{\mbox{\leftmark~::~\rightmark}}

Best regards
Thorsten¹

[gkamel]

Thanks, Thorsten, but LaTeX throws up an error as there is a linebreak in an \mbox due to the wrapping.

NB. the code in my first post should have read:

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\fancyhead[L]{\leftmark~::~\rightmark}

(missing the [L]). But regardless of this, the wrapping issue remains.

[gkamel]

It turns out that the problem is unique to my document, as the headers do not wrap if I use a minimal document. So I'll try to cut down my document to see what could be causing it, and post anything back here that may be of use to others.

Thanks.