Page Layout ⇒ Chapter on left Page and Section on right Page

[AleCes]

Hello everybody,

In a document like this:

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,openany,oneside]{book}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
\setmainfont{FreeSerif}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
 \setmainlanguage{english}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\usepackage{bookmark}

\begin{document}

\chapter{bla}

\section{bla}

\section{bla}

\end{document} 

How can I get to customize fancyhdr so that I have chapter name on the header of left pages and section name on the header of right pages?

Thank you very much,

[Johannes_B]

I've been taking a look at the documentation of fancyhdr and found the following:

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,openany,oneside]{book}
\usepackage{fancyhdr.
\pagestyle{fancy}
\lhead{\leftmark}
\rhead{\rightmark}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
\setmainfont{FreeSerif}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{english}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\usepackage{bookmark}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}

\chapter{testchapter}
\blindtext[4]
\section{testsec1}
\blindtext[4]
\section{testsec2}
\blindtext[4]
\end{document}

You would have found the same by a little reading.

Your minimal working example was quite good, but the naming of your sections is terrible. You could have invested a little more phantasy.

[AleCes]

OK, Johannes_B, so, now what about the answer?

[Johannes_B]

Did you read my posted code? Copy and compile it.

Maybe you notice the commands for lhead and rhead.

EDIT: I just took another look at your initial question and I have a question. You are asking for a layout on right (odd) and left (even) pages, but you are defining a global option oneside. In this case, there are no even and odd pages. Also, the option openany is not really usefull in the case of oneside.

[AleCes]

OK, sorry, I'm really sorry, I didn't notice the lhead command but I've compiled it and I see no changes in the header layout.

About oneside, just forget about it, in this document it's just a typo. Obviously I removed it before I compiled.

[Johannes_B]

Try the following:

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\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead{}
\fancyhead[LE]{\leftmark}
\fancyhead[RO]{\rightmark}

But remember to delete the option oneside.

[AleCes]

OK, thank you very much it works wonderfully!