Page Layout ⇒ fancyhdr | Problem with Sections in Header

[fededevita]

Hi I am using fancyhdr for a book. I am using both \leftmark, which is working fine putting the chapter names on the header, and \rightmark, which is giving me a problem: it does put the section names in, as it should, but it adds a dot to the left. I am quite lost.

[localghost]

Unfortunately you keep back important information that would allow others to help you. Descriptions are nice to have, but only the code that reproduces the undesired behaviour is really helpful to get closer to a solution. So it's necessary that you provide the critical parts within a small sample document that is compilable out of the box.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[fededevita]

Good point, apologies.

Here is the code. I think the problem lies in the re-definition of the section, but I have no idea how to solve it. In the header on the last page, it doesn't say "Short title of sec" but puts a dot in front of it so it reads ". Short title of sec". Any help is much appreciated

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\documentclass{book}

\usepackage{fancyhdr}

\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead[RO,LE]{\leftmark}
\fancyhead[RE,LO]{\rightmark}
\fancyfoot[LE,RO]{\thepage}
\fancyfoot[RE,LO]{}
\cfoot{}

\renewcommand\thesection{\hspace{-1em}}

\begin{document}

\begin{titlepage}
\Huge {\bf The Title}
\end{titlepage}

\setcounter{tocdepth}{2}
\tableofcontents

\chapter{One}

\section[Short title of sec]{Long title of section}

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\end{document}

[localghost]

What do you hope to achieve by this redefinition of the section counter?

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\renewcommand{\thesection}{\hspace{-1em}}

This is not comprehensible to me.

[fededevita]

This is just redefining the section command so that it doesn't come up with a section number (without this line it would come up with "1.1 name of section", this way it only shows the section name). The negative hspace is simply removing the indent

[localghost]

So you want to turn off numbering of section headings (and probably of all the lower heading levels)?

[fededevita]

yes

[localghost]

Then set the counter secnumdepth accordingly.

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[RO,LE]{\leftmark}
\fancyhead[RE,LO]{\rightmark}
\fancyfoot[LE,RO]{\thepage}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}  % default value 2 for »book« class
\setcounter{tocdepth}{2}

\begin{document}
  \tableofcontents

  \chapter{One}
    \section[Short title of Section]{Long title of Section}

    \lipsum
\end{document}

[fededevita]

That works beautifully, thanks very much.