Page Layout ⇒ Header too long

[Kalle]

Hey everybody,
a friend of mine is writing her PhD-thesis and has problems with the document's header: the header is longer than the text. It's always exceeding on the right side.
I tried various approaches without any solution...The used document class is "scrreprt", the text two sided. The first solution was with the "fancyhdr"-package:
\fancyhead{}
\fancyfoot{}
\fancyhead[EL]{{\thepage}\hspace{1cm}\mbox{\leftmark}}
\fancyhead[OR]{{\leftmark}\hspace{1cm}\mbox{\thepage}}
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]
{\markboth{#1}{}}

Then I tried the "scrpage2":
\usepackage[headsepline,automark]{scrpage2}
\pagestyle{scrheadings}
\clearscrheadfoot
\setheadsepline[text]{.4pt}
\lehead{\pagemark\hspace{1cm}\mbox{\leftmark} }
\rohead{\leftmark\hspace{1cm}\mbox{\pagemark} }

But without luck. Does anybody know what to do in order to resize the header to the text width?!

[localghost]

At first, please use the code environment to tag code as such. This keeps a post clear and legible. Secondly, only provide full examples which are compilable for everyone, called a minimal working example (MWE). Code snippets are useless.

Your friend may use the optional short form for the chapter title.

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\chapter[short form for list and header entry]{full chapter title for display}

Note that the short form is also listed in the ToC.

It is preferable to use the scrpage2 package when using a class from KOMA Script. But the described problem doesn't depend on that.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[Kalle]

Hey,
sorry for my mistakes. I am new here and did not know how to do that...
As for the answer, the problem is not that the chapter name is too long but the header itself. No matter how short the chapter name is the header always exceed the text block by roughly 1 cm on the right.

[localghost]

[...] As for the answer, the problem is not that the chapter name is too long but the header itself. No matter how short the chapter name is the header always exceed the text block by roughly 1 cm on the right.

As I already said, a MWE that shows the problem is required for specific help. I wonder where you got the code for the header from.

[Kalle]

sorry..totally forgot to attache that:

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% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Vorspann
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,twoside,abstracton,bibliography=totoc]{scrreprt}

\usepackage[ngerman,english,american]{babel}  % Sprachen
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}   % Trennung
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} % Umlaute
\usepackage[ngerman, num]{isodate}
\hyphenation{NMDAR
		      NMDARs
		      tri-he-te-ro-meric
		      iono-tropic
		      non-selective}
%\monthyearsepgerman{\,}{\,}

%Seitenlayout
%\usepackage{fancyhdr} %Layout Kopfzeile
%\pagestyle{fancy} %eigenen Seitenstil aktivieren
%\fancyhead{} %Felder loeschen
%\fancyfoot{} %Felder loeschen
%\fancyhead[EL]{\thepage} %Kopfzeile linke Seite, gerade Seitenzahlen links aussen
%\fancyhead[ER]{\leftmark} %Kopfzeile linke Seite, Kapitel rechts innen
%\fancyhead[OR]{\thepage} %Kopfzeile rechte Seite, ungerade Seitenzahlen rechts aussen
%\fancyhead[OL]{\leftmark} %Kopfzeile rechte Seite, Kapitel links innen
%\fancyhead[EL]{{\thepage}\hspace{1cm}\mbox{\leftmark}} %linke Seite, gerade Seitenzahlen links aussen, Kapitel daneben
%\fancyhead[OR]{{\leftmark}\hspace{1cm}\mbox{\thepage}} %rechte Seite, ungerade Seitenzahlen rechts aussen, Kapitel daneben
%\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]%
%{\markboth{#1}{}}		%Kopfzeile: nur Kapitelueberschrift (Befehle unten klappen nicht)

%\renewcommand\chaptermark[1]{\markboth{\leftmark{#1}}{}} %nur Kapitelname wird angezeigt
%\renewcommand\chaptermark[1]{\markboth{\thechapter.~{#1}}{}} %nur Kapitelname wird angezeigt
%\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.3pt} %Liniendicke
%\setlength{\headwidth}{0.9\textwidth}
%\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
%\fancyhf{}
%\fancyhead[EL]{\thepage}
%\fancyhead[OR]{\thepage}} %pagestyle plain umdefinieren, damit bei chapterseiten in Kopfzeile Seitenzahl steht 
%\renewcommand*{\chapterheadstartvskip}{\vspace*{-\topskip}} %kleinerer Abstand Kopfzeile-chapter
%\renewcommand*{\chapterheadendvskip}{\vspace*{-\topskip}} %kleinerer Abstand chapter-Text


\usepackage[headsepline,automark]{scrpage2}
\pagestyle{scrheadings}
\clearscrheadfoot %Kopf und Fußzeile löschen

\setheadsepline[text]{.4pt}

\lehead{\pagemark\hspace{1cm}\mbox{\leftmark} }
\rohead{\leftmark\hspace{1cm}\mbox{\pagemark} }


\usepackage{SIunits}
\usepackage[comma,sort&compress]{natbib} %Referenzen einfuegen ueber \citep{} (Autor, Jahr)
\bibpunct{(}{)}{;}{a}{,}{,} %Definition der Zitierweise
\usepackage{amsmath} %Matheformeln, Symbole:amsymb
\usepackage{dsfont} %schoenere Buchstaben bei Formeln
\usepackage{graphicx} %Graphiken als jpeg einbinden mit \includegraphics{}
\usepackage{float} %exakte Angabe derPositionierung von Tabellen und Graphiken in figure und table Umgebungen [H]
\usepackage{placeins}					% Floatbarrier, Bilder/Tabellen werden vor einem bestimmten Punkt eingefügt
\usepackage{sidecap}
\usepackage{rotating} %drehende Umgebung
\usepackage{multicol,longtable,rotate} %mehrspaltiger Text, mehrseitige Tabellen
\usepackage{lscape} %Querformat
\usepackage{geometry} %Beeinflussung von Seitenraendern
\usepackage{appendix} %neue Nummerierung etc. fuer Anhang
\usepackage[labelfont=bf, font=small,format=plain,labelformat=simple,justification=justified,singlelinecheck=false,figurewithin=none,tablewithin=none,figurename=Fig.]{caption}


\usepackage{setspace} %Umstellen von Zeilenabstaenden
\onehalfspacing %1.5 facher Zeilenabstand
\usepackage{hyperref} %erzeugt hyperlinks im pdf




%---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Beginn Dokument

\begin{document}

\input{Deckblatt}
\newpage

\input{titlepage}
\newpage

\thispagestyle{empty}
\null\newpage

\input{declaration}
\newpage

\thispagestyle{empty}
\null\newpage

\input{Zusammenfassung}
\newpage

\selectlanguage{american}

\input{summary}
\newpage


\input{tableofcontents}
\newpage

\pagenumbering{arabic}
\input{introduction}
\newpage

\input{results}
\newpage

\input{methods}
\newpage

\input{Abbreviations}

\bibliographystyle{jphysiol}

\bibliography{NMDAthesis}

\end{document}

[localghost]

That is not a MWE! Please follow carefully the instructions behind link I gave earlier.

It seems that the document language is German. In this case the language options for babel should be swapped.

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\usepackage[english,american,ngerman]{babel}  % Sprachen, die letzte ist Voreinstellung

[Kalle]

Hopefully this qualifies as an MWE...

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,twoside,abstracton,bibliography=totoc]{scrreprt}

\usepackage[ngerman,english,american]{babel}  
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}  
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} 
\usepackage[ngerman, num]{isodate}

%Seitenlayout
%\usepackage{fancyhdr} 
%\pagestyle{fancy}
%\fancyhead{}
%\fancyfoot{}
%\fancyhead[EL]{{\thepage}\hspace{1cm}\mbox{\leftmark}}
%\fancyhead[OR]{{\leftmark}\hspace{1cm}\mbox{\thepage}}
%\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]
%{\markboth{#1}{}}

\usepackage[headsepline,automark]{scrpage2}
\pagestyle{scrheadings}
\clearscrheadfoot %Kopf und Fußzeile löschen

\setheadsepline[text]{.4pt}

\lehead{\pagemark\hspace{1cm}\mbox{\leftmark} }
\rohead{\leftmark\hspace{1cm}\mbox{\pagemark} }

\usepackage{geometry} 

\begin{document}

\chapter{Introduction}
\section{Signal transmission in the central nervous system}
 
 ...long text...
 
 \section{Ionotropic glutamate receptors}
 \subsection{Classification of ionotropic glutamate receptors}

...long text...

\subsection{Structure of ionotropic glutamate receptors}

...long text....

\chapter{Results}

...long text... 

\end{document}

And for the language: even though she is German (and me too...) the thesis is written in english

[localghost]

And for the language: even though she is German (and me too...) the thesis is written in english

Seems that I was irritated by the names of the externals files.

Compiling your code I can't see any headers thus can't comprehend the problem. Therefore I can only guess. Perhaps deleting the \mbox in the header setting might solve the problem. This is all I can advice at the moment.

Supplement:
Finally I was able to locate the source of the problem. See code below.

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,twoside,abstracton,bibliography=totoc]{scrreprt}

\usepackage[ngerman,english,american]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[ngerman, num]{isodate}
\usepackage{blindtext}

%Seitenlayout
%\usepackage{fancyhdr}
%\pagestyle{fancy}
%\fancyhead{}
%\fancyfoot{}
%\fancyhead[EL]{{\thepage}\hspace{1cm}\mbox{\leftmark}}
%\fancyhead[OR]{{\leftmark}\hspace{1cm}\mbox{\thepage}}
%\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]
%{\markboth{#1}{}}

\usepackage[headsepline,automark]{scrpage2}
\pagestyle{scrheadings}
\clearscrheadfoot %Kopf und Fußzeile löschen

%\setheadsepline[text]{.4pt}

\lehead{\pagemark\hspace{1cm}\mbox{\leftmark} }
\rohead{\leftmark\hspace{1cm}\mbox{\pagemark} }

\usepackage{geometry}

\begin{document}
\Blinddocument
\end{document}

The command for the line below the head is used wrongly. I guess you want to have the line at a certain thickness. So abandon the optional argument. Explained on page 135 of the KOMA Script manual (English version).

[Kalle]

Thank for your tip but that does not solve the problem..the header is still exceeding the text ( see attached pictures)

[localghost]

I supplemented my last reply. See the explanations there.