General ⇒ The heading of very first section is carried over from TOC

[drmCA]

In the MWE below the caption in the header of the pages under 'about' part is 'contents' where it should have been 'about'.

What am I doing wrong?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

The reason is, that chapter headings and section headings are used for the page header, but not part headings. You could change it to use part headings instead, but this is probably not good.

To know what I mean, insert \sectionmark:

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\part[About this book]{About this book}
\sectionmark{About this book}

Then you will see this text in the header. You might notice, that it doesn't seem consistent. The consistent way would be, in this part, to start a chapter and a section, instead of beginning text without any sectioning before.

However, you could simply use \markboth to manually change the header entry.

Stefan

[drmCA]

Amazing. How's that logical?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

How's that logical?

Could you be more specific with your question? I mean I explained it:

The reason is, that chapter headings and section headings are used for the page header, but not part headings...

and possible solutions. Commonly, in a book, in a new part a new chapter starts. You just started to write text instead. So you cannot use the predefined chapter based layout, but as usual it can easily be modified.

Stefan

[drmCA]

Yeah, truly amazing decision to carry over previous section's name into the new part.