Page Layout ⇒ headers in chapter with no sections

[lauraf]

Hi all,

For my thesis, I am using fancyhdr with the following specifications:

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\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]% 
{\markboth{\MakeUppercase{\thechapter.\ #1}}{}} 
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]% 
{\markright{\MakeUppercase{\thesection.\ #1}}} 
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[RO]{\bfseries\rightmark}
\fancyhead[LE]{\bfseries\leftmark}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.5pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
\addtolength{\headheight}{0.5pt}
\fancypagestyle{plain}{
  \fancyhead{}
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
}

The thesis is one-sided. In most chapters, this produces a header including a rule and the section number/title as text, for example:

3.2 DATA AND METHODS

However, Chapter 7, the conclusion chapter, has no sections/subsections, so in this case the header includes the rule but no text. What I want instead is the rule with the chapter title as text, i.e.:

7. CONCLUSION

Can anybody help? I have read through the fancyhdr documentation carefully but could not figure this out.

Many many thanks!
Laura

[localghost]

Try \markboth to customize the page style.


Best regards
Thorsten

[lauraf]

Thank you Thorsten. This does the trick:

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\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]% 
{\markright{\MakeUppercase{\thechapter.\ #1}}{}} 
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]% 
{\markright{\MakeUppercase{\thesection.\ #1}}} 
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[R]{\bfseries\rightmark}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.5pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
\addtolength{\headheight}{0.5pt}
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
  \fancyhead{}
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
}

Best regards,
Laura