[Tex/LaTex] Changing only the header for Table of Contents pages with package fancyhdr

fancyhdrheader-footertable of contents

I want to make my Table of Contents pages show "Table of Contents" in their headers with package fancyhdr. Right now, according to the MWE below, this is what it shows:

And this is what I want it to show:

The header, in this case, was done via \fancyhead[RE,LO]{Table of Contents}. This affects all other pages though, which is definitely not what I want.

Below is my MWE:

\documentclass[10pt,openany]{book}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
    \fancyhf{}
    \fancyhead[RE,LO]{Part \thepart\enspace--\enspace Chapter \thechapter}
    \fancyhead[LE,RO]{\thepage}
    \fancyfoot[C]{My Book}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\part{One}
\chapter{1}
\chapter{2}
\part{Two}
\chapter{3}
\chapter{4}
\chapter{5}
\chapter{6}
\chapter{7}
\part{Three}
\chapter{8}
\chapter{9}
\chapter{10}
\chapter{11}
\chapter{12}
\part{Four}
\chapter{13}
\chapter{14}
\part{Five}
\chapter{15}
\chapter{16}
\chapter{17}
\chapter{18}
\chapter{19}
\chapter{20}
\part{Six}
\chapter{21}
\chapter{22}
\chapter{23}
\chapter{24}
\end{document}

EDIT: My environment is MikTeX 2.9 and Command-Line pdflatex (with the help of Neovim) on Windows 10.

MORE EDIT: I want to be able to change the stuff that goes in the header/footer, so even though \pagestyle{fancy} does print TABLE OF CONTENTS for ToC pages, I'd like to avoid that option unless absolutely necessary.

Best Answer

Well, you can for example define two own styles to be used:

\fancypagestyle{styletoc}{% <===========================================
  \fancyhf{}
  \fancyhead[RE,LO]{Table of contents}
  \fancyhead[LE,RO]{\thepage}
  \fancyfoot[C]{My Book}
% \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
}

\fancypagestyle{stylenor}{% <===========================================
  \fancyhf{}
  \fancyhead[RE,LO]{Part \thepart\enspace--\enspace Chapter \thechapter}
  \fancyhead[LE,RO]{\thepage}
  \fancyfoot[C]{My Book}
% \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
}

Style styletoc is then only used for the table of contents part, style stylenor for the other parts. Please sse that you should also define a new style plain:

\fancypagestyle{plain}{% <===========================================
  \fancyhf{}
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
}

to get rid of the headrule without any other datas and the standard page number in the center of the footer ...

With the following mwe

\documentclass[10pt,openany]{book}

\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}

\fancypagestyle{styletoc}{% <===========================================
  \fancyhf{}
  \fancyhead[RE,LO]{Table of contents}
  \fancyhead[LE,RO]{\thepage}
  \fancyfoot[C]{My Book}
% \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
}

\fancypagestyle{stylenor}{% <===========================================
  \fancyhf{}
  \fancyhead[RE,LO]{Part \thepart\enspace--\enspace Chapter \thechapter}
  \fancyhead[LE,RO]{\thepage}
  \fancyfoot[C]{My Book}
% \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
}

\fancypagestyle{plain}{% <===========================================
  \fancyhf{}
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
}


\begin{document}

\pagestyle{styletoc} % <================================================
\tableofcontents

\part{One}
\pagestyle{stylenor} % <================================================
\chapter{1}
\Blindtext
\chapter{2}
\part{Two}
\chapter{3}
\chapter{4}
\chapter{5}
\chapter{6}
\chapter{7}
\part{Three}
\chapter{8}
\chapter{9}
\chapter{10}
\chapter{11}
\chapter{12}
\part{Four}
\chapter{13}
\chapter{14}
\part{Five}
\chapter{15}
\chapter{16}
\chapter{17}
\chapter{18}
\chapter{19}
\chapter{20}
\part{Six}
\chapter{21}
\chapter{22}
\chapter{23}
\chapter{24}
\end{document}

you get the following wished result:

and for chapter 1 etc:

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[Tex/LaTex] Format of the header in the table of contents

In the future, please produce a proper minimal working example; not only does doing so often solve your problem all by itself, but it makes it much easier for others to help you.

As an aside, don't use \sf (along with \bf, \it, and so forth); these are deprecated font change commands. Rather, you should be using \sffamily or \textsf{text}, because these commands fit into the LaTeX2e New Font Selection Scheme.

For your headers: there's really no need to reinvent the wheel; you can try using a package to handle the headers. fancyhdr is probably the most popular; it can what you want in very few lines:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
    \fancyfoot{}
    \fancyhead{}
    \fancyhead[RO,LE]{\thepage}
    \fancyhead[C]{\textsf{\nouppercase{\leftmark}}}
    \pagestyle{fancy}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\lipsum\lipsum
\end{document}

Here, we begin by clearing current headers and footers with \fancyfoot{} and \fancyhead{}; that gives us a clean slate. Then we set the page numbers on the left of even pages and the right of odd pages; then, in the middle of all pages, we put \leftmark, which is your chapter name in the book class. We style it with \textsf, for sans serif type; and we use \nouppercase to prevent LaTeX from capitalizing the whole thing. And that's it.

fancyhdr is really a superb package with excellent documentation; giving it a once-over will be quite helpful.

[Tex/LaTex] Redefining fancyhdr for “plain” changes non-chapter pages’ header/footer

You have to add \pagestyle{fancy} before, say, \begin{document}

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}

\fancyhead[R]{\leftmark}
\fancyhead[C,L]{}
\fancyfoot[R]{\thepage}
\fancyfoot[C]{}
\fancyfoot[L]{\textit{thesistitle}}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}

\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
\fancyhf{}
\fancyfoot[R]{\thepage}
\fancyfoot[L]{\textit{thesistitle}}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}}

\pagestyle{fancy}   %%<----------- this added
\begin{document}
  \Blinddocument
\end{document}

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