Page Layout ⇒ problems with sectionmark

[sil]

Hi,

I had some problems with the header of certain pages because my section titles were quite long. I found that I could use the \sectionmark command to include the short title in the header but the complete one in the table of contents. This command solved most of my problems, but there is one page which begins with a new section where the header is not correct (so it seems that the \sectionmark is not working in this case). I tried to write the \sectionmark command right before the section but it did not work..

Does anybody know how I could solve it?

Thanks!!

Silvia

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Silvia,

in that case call \sectionmark twice like this:

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\section[short or original version]{original version%
  \sectionmark{head mark version}}
\sectionmark{head mark version}

Stefan

[sil]

It works!!!! Thanks a lot Stefan!!

[yftk54]

Hello,

I had the same problem and hopefully found that solution, thank you.
In the first place, I tried without the option :

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\section{original version%
  \sectionmark{head mark version}}
\sectionmark{head mark version}

which led to the error "Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced".

Apparently, the "option" is required for this trick to work :

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\section[short or original version]{original version%
  \sectionmark{head mark version}}
\sectionmark{head mark version}

But this it really black magic to me. Shouldn't we consider that it is a bug when the section mark is not correctly set by \sectionmark{...} ? Where shall it be signaled ? Or has it already been signaled ?

Best regards,

O.C.

[thefloyd]

Hi,

I'm having trouble since this doesn't work in the book class (at least not for me).

Any help?

Thanks

Diego

[localghost]

[…] I'm having trouble since this doesn't work in the book class (at least not for me). […]

For an adequate problem description you should prepare a proper minimal example. And perhaps it's better to open a new thread instead of hijacking a solved topic and possibly refer to this topic here by a link.


Thorsten