Book title left, chapter title right in Book class with fancyhdr

marsup

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Jul 16, 2011, 4:41:13 AM7/16/11

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I am using book class & fancyhdr package.

I wish to put book title on the left header, and chapter title on the
right header.
Cute ideas? thanks.

-Marsup

Peter Flynn

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Jul 17, 2011, 3:57:16 PM7/17/11

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On 16/07/11 09:41, marsup wrote:
> I am using book class& fancyhdr package.

>
> I wish to put book title on the left header, and chapter title on the
> right header.
> Cute ideas? thanks.

\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead{RO,LE}{}
\fancyhead{LE,RO}{}
\fancyhead{CE}{\small\@title}
\fancyhead{CO}{\small\rightmark}

(untested, I'm away from base right now)

///Peter

marsup

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Jul 19, 2011, 11:01:37 PM7/19/11

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On Jul 18, 5:57 am, Peter Flynn <pe...@silmaril.ie> wrote:
> On 16/07/11 09:41,marsupwrote:

What is the meanting of @title here? I am not good at these,
however, if I wish to put the book title, how can I change this?
{\small\@title}

Any one while Peter is away? Thanks.

-Marsup

Dan

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Jul 20, 2011, 4:30:05 PM7/20/11

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On Jul 19, 10:01 pm, marsup <arasu....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 18, 5:57 am, Peter Flynn <pe...@silmaril.ie> wrote:
>
> > On 16/07/11 09:41,marsupwrote:
>
> > > I am using book class& fancyhdr package.
>
> > > I wish to put book title on the left header, and chapter title on the
> > > right header.
>

> > \pagestyle{fancy}
> > \fancyhead{RO,LE}{}
> > \fancyhead{LE,RO}{}
> > \fancyhead{CE}{\small\@title}
> > \fancyhead{CO}{\small\rightmark}
>
> > (untested, I'm away from base right now)
>
> > ///Peter
>
> What is the meanting of @title here? I am not good at these,
> however, if I wish to put the book title, how can I change this?
> {\small\@title}

After the command
\title{My Actual Title Here}
the title text is stored in the macro \@title. However, after the
command
\maketitle
the contents of \@title are discarded. Thus, Peter's code cannot
work unless
1. You use \title
2. You don't use \maketitle

Also, since the macro uses an @ sign, you must surround
it with \makeatletter and \makeatother.
\makeatletter
\fancyhead{CE}{\small \@title}
\makeatother

A better solution would be to type in the actual title:

\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead{RO,LE}{}
\fancyhead{LE,RO}{}

\fancyhead{CE}{\small My Actual Title Here}
\fancyhead{CO}{\small\rightmark}

Caveat: I do not use fancyhdr, so I can't say for sure if Peter's
incantations are otherwise correct. But clearly the fancyhdr
documentation would be able to say.

Dan

Enrico Gregorio

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Jul 20, 2011, 5:10:46 PM7/20/11

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Dan <luec...@uark.edu> wrote:

No, they are not correct! The positioning arguments
should go inside square brackets.

\newcommand{\booktitle}{How to write a book}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[CE]{\small\booktitle}
\fancyhead[CO]{\small\rightmark}
\fancyfoot{\small\thepage}

The command \fancyhf{} resets all header and footer fields,
so we need only to fill in the ones we want.

If \title is needed, it's easy:

\title{\booktitle}
\maketitle

Ciao
Enrico

Peter Flynn

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Jul 21, 2011, 6:11:11 PM7/21/11

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On 20/07/11 04:01, marsup wrote:
> On Jul 18, 5:57�am, Peter Flynn<pe...@silmaril.ie> wrote:
>> On 16/07/11 09:41,marsupwrote:
>>
>>> I am using book class& �fancyhdr package.
>>
>>> I wish to put book title on the left header, and chapter title on the
>>> right header.
>>> Cute ideas? thanks.
>>
>> \pagestyle{fancy}
>> \fancyhead{RO,LE}{}
>> \fancyhead{LE,RO}{}
>> \fancyhead{CE}{\small\@title}
>> \fancyhead{CO}{\small\rightmark}
>>
>> (untested, I'm away from base right now)
>>
>> ///Peter
>
> What is the meanting of @title here?

\@title is where LaTeX stores the title you give in \title.

> I am not good at these,
> however, if I wish to put the book title, how can I change this?
> {\small\@title}

Sorry, I don't understand the question.

///Peter

Peter Flynn

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Jul 21, 2011, 6:12:48 PM7/21/11

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On 20/07/11 21:30, Dan wrote:
[...]

> After the command
> \title{My Actual Title Here}
> the title text is stored in the macro \@title. However, after the
> command
> \maketitle
> the contents of \@title are discarded. Thus, Peter's code cannot
> work unless
> 1. You use \title
> 2. You don't use \maketitle

Quite right, I had forgotten this, sorry. I almost always rewrite
\maketitle.

> Also, since the macro uses an @ sign, you must surround
> it with \makeatletter and \makeatother.
> \makeatletter
> \fancyhead{CE}{\small \@title}
> \makeatother

That too.

///Peter