Page Layout ⇒ Header Font in ToC and Bibliography

[the_blue_note]

Hello to all,
I'm about to finish formatting my document. However there is still a thing I would like to fix. I'm using for the chapters headers this font \usefont{OT1}{phv}{b}{n}, and I display the chapter name on left pages and the section name on the right ones.
However, the header of both the TOC and The Bibliography are roman smallcaps and I've no idea how can this be changed..
So my question is: is there any way to change the font on the TOC and bibliography to the same one that I'm using on the chapters heads?
Many thanks in advance for your help and time.
Cheers,
Pablo

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Pablo,

sure, that's possible, for example using class features, or the titlesec package, or redefining the macro \@makeschapterhead. Which one to choose, depends on your document. You did not tell us your class yet and how you modify the chapter headings.

Stefan

[the_blue_note]

Stefan,
many thanks for your fast answer. As a matter of fact, I'm using a template PhDtemplateLatex I found in http://openwetware.org/wiki/LaTeX_templ ... PhD_thesis. You probably know it. It's quite useful for newbies like me. In any case, I cannot find any documentclass line. I guess it defines its own.

The lines I changed to tweak the chapter heads are:
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{\usefont{OT1}{phv}{b}{n}\selectfont{\thechapter. #1 }}{}}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{\usefont{OT1}{phv}{m}{n}\selectfont\thesection\ #1}}
Originally they were small caps and quite big. The problem is that I do not know if these lines exist for TOC or bibliography nor where to find them.

Millions of thanks for your help and time!
Pablo

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You could call \markboth (or \markright) manually before the TOC or bibliography, respectively, or at the beginning. Such as

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\cleardoublepage
\markboth{...}{...}
\tableofcontents

or

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\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\markboth{...}{...}}

at the beginning.

Stefan

[the_blue_note]

Stefan,
thanks a lot! It worked like clockwork for the TOC, LOF and LOT. I'm almost there, but I'm still unable to do the same for the bibliography and the alphabetical index. Is it possible to tweak those ones too?
Thanks! Cheers,
Pablo

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Yes, that's possible. I could show it if you show a minimal working example representing your current code.

Stefan

[the_blue_note]

Hi again,
I finally got to do it placing the line \markboth{...}{...} inside the bib file and the index file.
Thanks a lot for your help! Cheers,
Pablo