General ⇒ fancyhdr: long titles in toc and short one in headers

[toufalk]

Hello World

It's the first time that i post something on an English forum...

Here is my problem:
I use fancyhdr for my headers and footers. I have long titles for chapters and sections.
So with \pagestyle{fancy}, they mix in the headers.

The solution for that is to use \section[short]{very very long}.
But then, the short title appears in the table of contents... and i want to see the long title here!

I tried

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\let\stdsection=\section
\renewcommand{\section}[2][]{%
    \ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{}}
        {}
        {\sectionmark{#1}}%
    \stdsection{#2}%
    \ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{}}
        {}
        {\sectionmark{#1}}%
    }

This works fine for section, but not for chapter... and \section*{} don't work properly!

There's also this

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\newcommand{\mychapter}[2][]{%
    \ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{}}
        {}
        {\chaptermark{#1}}%
    \chapter{#2}%
    \ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{}}
        {}
        {\chaptermark{#1}}%
    }

But I have to modify all the chapter into mychapter...

all this is not very convincing.
Any idea to help me ??

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi toufalk,

welcome to the board!
One idea for \chapter:

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\makeatletter
\newcommand*\std@chapter{}
\let\std@chapter=\@chapter
\renewcommand*\@chapter[2][]{\std@chapter[#2]{#2}\chaptermark{#1}}
\makeatother

Stefan

[texuser]

Thank you! This works great for me!

[arnoques]

Thank you both! Those codes were very useful, as I had the same problem.

[daleif]

why don't you just use the memoir class instead. It is a lot easier to use than the standard classes and includes the functionality of some 40+ packages, all documented in one manual.

In memoir we use

\chapter[toc][header]{text}

just one optional sends both to header and toc, and no optional sends text to all three.

It is a better investment to go away from the standard classes.