I am writing a book with several parts and chapters that has a general introduction. I defined a header style for most of the book, that I can easily locally disable for a few pages with \pagestyle{empty}
. The header has my name in even pages and the chapter mark (Chapter XX) in odd pages.
Now I would like to have a different kind of header for the introduction to avoid having an ugly "Chapter 0" as a header. I want the header to have my name in even pages and "introduction" in odd pages.
I defined a new style using fancyhdr. However nothing seems to work. After a few pages, I get the "Chapter 0" back in the introduction, and it lasts until the next chapter, although I have cleared the page. Can you please tell me wat is wrong in my MWE?
\documentclass[12pt, A4]{book}
\usepackage{tocbibind}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{emptypage}
%%%%% Header
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\fancypagestyle{style1}{
\fancyhead[CO]{Introduction}
\fancyfoot[CE]{Me}
\fancyfoot[CE,CO]{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[CE]{Me}
\fancyhead[CO]{\chaptername \ \thechapter}
\fancyfoot[CE,CO]{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\begin{document}
{\pagestyle{empty}
\tableofcontents
\clearpage}
\clearpage
{\pagestyle{style1}
\chapter*{Introduction}
\Blindtext
\Blindtext
\Blindtext
\Blindtext
}
\clearpage
\pagestyle{fancy}
\part{Thing}
\Blindtext
\Blindtext
\Blindtext
\Blindtext
\Blindtext
\chapter{Thing thing}
\Blindtext
\Blindtext
\Blindtext
\Blindtext
\Blindtext
\chapter{thingthingthing}
\Blindtext
\Blindtext
\Blindtext
\Blindtext
\Blindtext
\end{document}
Best Answer
Use
\leftmark
in the header. There is also a\rightmark
. However, here inbook
-class, with default options,\leftmark
would hold the chapter-name, with some formatting. This can be changed of course.A few places throughout your document, you need to change what is in the header, as you haven't yet defined a non-starred
\chapter
. Then we can update\rightmark
with\markkright
, but there is no\markleft
-command available. A shame really, could be useful.\markboth{left}{right}
could be used here, though.Suggestions
\pagestyle
for when you want a single page to be different. Use\thispagestyle
, which only changes the style for that one page. Have the first/main\pagestyle
in the preamble, keeps it a bit tidier. Content and settings should in my opinion be separated as much as possible.\clearpages
. Inbook
-class, the default option isopenright
, which means that every chapter will start at only right-hand sides.Code