Page Layout ⇒ Chapter title in header

[AndyBern]

My first post...

I'm in the final stages of writing a book. I used MS Word, but a week or so ago I did a full install of MiKTeX 2.9 so I can learn Latex and publish the book in a more professional-looking manner. I've been programming computers for decades in various languages, so Latex should be pretty easy to learn. However, I'm having problems with things that I think should be pretty easy to do. For example...

I'm using the fancyhdr package and trying to put the chapter title in the header. So far, I'm having no success. Everything I've read online tells me \leftmark should be the chapter title, but it doesn't return anything. (I've also tried \thechapter.) This is where I'm at at the moment...

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\documentclass[12pt,twoside]{book}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\setlength{\headheight}{15pt}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{#1}{}}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{#1}{}}
\fancyhead{}
\fancyfoot{}
\fancyhead[CO]{Book Title}
\fancyhead[CE]{\leftmark}
\fancyfoot[CO]{\thepage}
\fancyfoot[CE]{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
\AtBeginDocument{\fancyhfoffset{0pt}}

\begin{document}
\chapter*{First Chapter}

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur ...

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

[Johannes_B]

Hi and welcome,

little hint, you can save the time of helpers by making the example compilable and showing the problem

Unnumbered chapters don't appear in the table of contents and \chaptermark is not set. You need to call it by yourself.

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\documentclass[12pt,twoside]{book}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\setlength{\headheight}{15pt}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{#1}{}}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{#1}{}}
\fancyhead{}
\fancyfoot{}
\fancyhead[CO]{Book Title}
\fancyhead[CE]{\leftmark}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
\AtBeginDocument{\fancyhfoffset{0pt}}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\chapter{First Chapter}
\blindtext[12]
\chapter*{unnumbered, look at the head}
\blindtext[12]
\chapter*{unnumbered, look at the head}
\chaptermark{what is here?}
\blindtext[12]


\end{document}

If you want an additional entry to the toc, you can use package unnumberedtotoc

[AndyBern]

Ok, thanks! That was it.