General ⇒ Fancy header problems

[Antoineql]

I'm using the \pagestyle{fancy} headers and the header style looks like this.

X.x name of section _______________Chap X name of chapter

But Chapter 2 has a long name and it looks like this:


____________Chap 2 very long name that continues on
2.x name of section _________________ the other line.


And Chap 3's header the section name and chapter name overlap.

Any idea how I could keep both of those things from happening.

[Andy22]

I think "fancy" uses the chapter name that appears in your TOC. You can define a shorter one by using:

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text
\chapter[short chapter name]{original very long chapter name}
more text

in your text.

The disadvantage is that the short name will appear in your TOC. Unfortunately I don't know if there is a way to define a chapter name especially for fancy header.

[karthik.velugoori]

this worked for me
\headsep = 25pt this should increase the head seperation and avoid overlap