Text Formatting ⇒ Justified and lowercase Text with Syllabification in Headers

[AleCes]

Hello everybody, on this:

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\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{book}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead{}
\fancyhead[LE]{\leftmark}
\fancyhead[RO]{\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}

I'd like to get my headers on lowercase (instead of small caps), with a justified and syllabified text. How can I do that?

Thanks

[localghost]

As the fancyhdr documentation describes in Section 9, you have to use \nouppercase to get lowercase header text.

It's not clear to me why you need hyphenation in your header. Perhaps you can provide an appropriate example instead of one that does not demonstrate this problem.


Thorsten

[AleCes]

As the fancyhdr documentation describes in Section 9, you have to use \nouppercase to get lowercase header text.

It's not clear to me why you need hyphenation in your header. Perhaps you can provide an appropriate example instead of one that does not demonstrate this problem.


Thorsten

Because I like hyphenation, I'd like to get it even in chapter titles, is there a way to get it?

[Johannes_B]

Could you please replace the \chapter{testchapter} with one real example showing the problem? At least I guess that's what you mean ...

[AleCes]

Could you please replace the \chapter{testchapter} with one real example showing the problem? At least I guess that's what you mean ...

I didn't do it because it's not in English, it's in Serbian, anyway:

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\chapter{Ираклијева династија. Арабљанска опасност и преображај царства у VI веку (610-717 г.)}

[Johannes_B]

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\chapter{Ираклијева династија. Арабљанска опасност и преображај царства у VI веку (610-717 г.)}

You can give an optional title, appearing in the table of contents and headers/footers, for example:

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\chapter[black and yellow bees]{Why bees are black and yellow all around the world}

I guess nobody is going to read the whole header anyway.

[localghost]

Because I like hyphenation, I'd like to get it even in chapter titles, is there a way to get it?

Actually I expected a serious answer and not one that lets me think that I waste my time here. I just requested an example that shows the hyphenation problem. No more, no less.

[AleCes]

Because I like hyphenation, I'd like to get it even in chapter titles, is there a way to get it?

Actually I expected a serious answer and not one that lets me think that I waste my time here.

Because my titles are long and I don't like devising a shorter form thereof for usage in the header. I prefer it to be the same.

[AleCes]

Because I like hyphenation, I'd like to get it even in chapter titles, is there a way to get it?

Actually I expected a serious answer and not one that lets me think that I waste my time here.

Because my titles are long and I don't like devising a shorter form thereof for usage in the header. I prefer it to be the same.

Is it not enough as an answer? How can I provide you with examples "with hyphenation problems" if hyphenation is disabled in them? Please let me know! The real issue is, I want to learn how to customize headers with fancyhdr.

[Johannes_B]

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\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{book}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead{}
\fancyhead[LE]{\nouppercase{\leftmark}}
\fancyhead[RO]{\nouppercase{\rightmark}}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
\setmainfont{Linux Libertine O}%changed that, i don't like free serif
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{english}% Well, it's not really english
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\usepackage{bookmark}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
\chapter[Ираклијева династија]{Ираклијева династија. Арабљанска опасност и
    преображај царства у VI веку (610-717 г.)}
\blindtext[4]
\chapter{Ираклијева династија. Арабљанска опасност и
    преображај царства у VI веку (610-717 г.)}
\end{document}

This contains the information provided by you, suggestions by Thorsten. and me added. Right now i still cannot see, we you need hyphenation, but it might be the different font.

After all, headers are just for orientation (Where in the book am i right now?) and should therefore be kept short. Compare the headheight of the first chapter (the one with the optional argument) with the second one. The logfile gives you an explanation:

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Package Fancyhdr Warning: \headheight is too small (14.49998pt): 
 Make it at least 27.22604pt.
 We now make it that large for the rest of the document.
 This may cause the page layout to be inconsistent, however.

You need to manually adjust the headheight everytime you change your headings.