General ⇒ Latex: chapter headings

[workerbee]

I was wondering if there was a way to shorten the chapter heading placed at the top of the pages (in the image, the boxed red text) without shortening the full title that's at the beginning of the chapter? Does anyone have any suggestions? Any response would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[frabjous]

I believe most document classes support an optional parameter to \chapter to set a short chapter name for headers, i.e.:

\chapter[short chapter name]{full chapter name}

But I think the precise result of using that will depend on precisely what document class you're using, and what packages, if any, you're using to do the headers. It might be helpful to know that.

I don't have a lot of experience with this personally, however, so someone else may know more.

[workerbee]

Thanks so much! I was using the book document class. I tried out your suggestion and it worked fabulously. Thanks, again