Page Layout ⇒ ToC Entries, Section Headings, running Headers

[texasAUtiger]

I am using the standard book documentclass, and am using setting up section in the standard way:

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\section{A Big Section}

I am happy for this title, A Big Section, to be used as the running head, so I do not use a short section name.

However, now I want the ToC entry for this section to be starred, without affecting the section name itself (in the body of the book) or the running head in that section. So I do this:

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\section[A Big Section*]{A Big Section}

but of course, it makes the running head becomes starred, which I don't want.

I hope I am missing something obvious where one make these three distinct: between, e.g., a long section name, a short section name, and the ToC section name.

For a little more specificity, here's a minimal working example showing my use of fancyhdr and titlesec. Closer, but not there yet...

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\documentclass[10pt,openright]{book}

%\usepackage[toctitles]{titlesec}

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
%\usepackage{calc}
%\fancyheadoffset[LE,RO]{\marginparsep+\marginparwidth}
\fancyheadoffset{0in}
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{#1}{}}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{\thesection\ #1}}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\thepage}
%\newcommand{\helv}{%
%\fontfamily{phv}\fontseries{b}\fontsize{9}{11}\selectfont}
\fancyhead[LO]{\sf\rightmark}
\fancyhead[RE]{\sf\leftmark}
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
\fancyhead{} % get rid of headers
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % and the line
}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\chapter{Something}

\section{Nothing to See}

blah

\newpage

blah blah

\newpage

\section[toc only]{section title}

blah

\newpage

blah blah

\newpage

\end{document}

Thanks for any input.

[localghost]

If I understand you right, the below code should do what you want. It uses the combination of the packages titlesec and titletoc.

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[pagestyles,raggedright]{titlesec}
\usepackage{titletoc}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\newpagestyle{main}{%
  \headrule
  \sethead[\thepage][][\sffamily\chaptertitle]{\sffamily\thesection\ \sectiontitle}{}{\thepage}
}
\pagestyle{main}

\newcommand*{\secmark}{}
\newcommand*{\marktotoc}[1]{\renewcommand{\secmark}{#1}}
\newcommand*{\marked}{%
  \renewcommand*{\secmark}{*}%
  \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\marktotoc{*}}%
}
\newcommand*{\unmarked}{%
  \renewcommand*{\secmark}{}%
  \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\marktotoc{}}%
}

\titlecontents{section}[3.8em]{}{\contentslabel[\thecontentslabel]{2.3em}}{\hspace*{-2.3em}}{\secmark\titlerule*[0.8pc]{.}\contentspage}

\begin{document}
  \tableofcontents

  \chapter{Chapter Title}

    \marked
    \section{Marked Section}
      \lipsum[1-12]

      \newpage

    \unmarked
    \section{Normal Section}
      \lipsum[1-12]
\end{document}

Note that the fancyhdr package was dropped in favor of titlesec because the latter one also provides pages styles with customized headers and footers. Your code has been translated correspondingly.


Thorsten

[texasAUtiger]

That worked wonderfully. Thank you!

Quick follow up: replacing my fancyhdr setting with yours has resulted in a page number being printed on the bottom center of a new chapter page.

I need for there to be no page number on the bottom of a new chapter page.

Can you tell me how to accomplish this in your implementation?

[localghost]

One simple line in the preamble of your document should do.

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\assignpagestyle{\chapter}{empty}

Must have overlooked that in your example.

[texasAUtiger]

Exactly what I needed. Thanks again for your help.

[texasAUtiger]

One simple line in the preamble of your document should do.

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\assignpagestyle{\chapter}{empty}

Must have overlooked that in your example.

Ok, I got to the end of my project and included the index via

\printindex

and it has a page number on the bottom center. Ugh!

I thought that setting new chapter pages to have an empty style would do this for the first page of the index as well, but it doesn't.

I have tried several things to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[localghost]

That's odd. I suggest to use the imakeidx package and study Section 3 of its manual. Drop any other index related package that you used before.