Page Layout ⇒ How to prevent TOC header to print after the TOC?

[alyx]

Hello,

I'm using LyX to write a book based on the koma-script class.
A table of contents is inserted, followed by a non-numbered chapter:

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\tableofcontents{}
\chapter*{\newpage{}Avant-Propos}

The title "Table of contents" prints in the page headers of the "Avant-Propos" chapter. How can I make this header stop on the page where the TOC ends?

Thanks.

[localghost]

Use the features of KOMA Script.

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\tableofcontents\clearpage
\addchap{Avant-Propos}

See the manual for details.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[alyx]

Thanks. It works.

A more general solution is to insert this after the not-numbered chapter titles:

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\markboth{left-page-header}{right-page-header}

The second pair of curly brackets (here empty) are for the header to print on the right pages (i.e. odd pages), typically a section name.

The benefit of using \addchap{} is that you don't have to edit the first argument of \markboth{} if the name of the chapter changes. The drawback is that chapter titles are not displayed like chapters inside LyX, but as LyX code. This is a minor drawback for the writer. It is worth mentioning that \addchap{} is valid for KOMA-Script only, which is not the case of \markboth.

Here are two interesting links about \markboth.

1) http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@l ... 02583.html

For French speakers:
2) http://www.developpez.net/forums/d60370 ... -leftmark/

[localghost]

[...] The benefit of using \addchapter{} is that you don't have to edit the first argument of \markboth{} if the name of the chapter changes. The drawback is that chapter titles are not displayed like chapters inside LyX, but as LyX code. This is a minor drawback for the writer. It is worth mentioning that \addchapter{} is valid for KOMA-Script only, which is not the case of \markboth. [...]

I don't see where the talk was of this »\addchapter« command (which doesn't exist).

[alyx]

I don't see where the talk was of this »\addchapter« command (which doesn't exist).

Oops! Sorry, I meant "\addchap". I corrected in my previous message.

[alyx]

So, to summarize the issue is thus of correct page headers after a table of contents (TOC), when the content that follows is not a numbered chapter and using the KOMA-Script book class, i.e. scrbook.cls.

If what follows the TOC is a not-numbered chapter like a foreword, we can either use:

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\addchap{Foreword}

or

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\chapter*{Foreword}
\markboth{Foreword}{}

With the first solution, the "Foreword" will be printed as an entry in the table of contents. This is not the case if we choose the second solution.

The second solution also gives a correct preview of the chapter title if you're working with LyX.

It can also be adapted if the text that follows the table of contents is not a chapter. Assuming that the TOC ends on an odd page and we want the Foreword to print as a sub-section on the next odd page, we can use

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\newpage \markboth{}{} \null 
\newpage
\subsection*{Foreword}
\markboth{Foreword}{}

Code above adds a blank even page (without header). Then it creates an even page with a subsection titled "Foreword". Even pages after this subsection will be headed with the text "Foreword".

Hope this can help others.