[Tex/LaTex] Fancyhdr layout of “Contents” and “Chapter 0”

fancyhdrheader-footertable of contents

The attached latex produces header of page 2 and page 4 to look like

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where I would have liked "CONTENTS" to be "Contents" and "Chapter 0: Rresumé" to be "Rresumé".

All the following chapter headers should still be "Chapter 1: Something".

Question

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

Latex

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{book}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}

\pagestyle{fancyplain}
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{Chapter \thechapter{}: #1}{}}
\lhead[\fancyplain{}{\bfseries\thepage}]
    {\fancyplain{}{\bfseries\rightmark}}
\rhead[\fancyplain{}{\bfseries\leftmark}]
    {\fancyplain{}{\bfseries\thepage}}
\cfoot[]{}
\addtolength{\headheight}{1.6pt}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{\thesection{} #1}}
\lhead[\fancyplain{}{\bfseries\thepage}]
    {\fancyplain{}{\bfseries\rightmark}}
\rhead[\fancyplain{}{\bfseries\leftmark}]
    {\fancyplain{}{\bfseries\thepage}}
\cfoot[]{}
\addtolength{\headheight}{1.6pt}

\renewcommand{\chaptertitlename}{}
\titleformat{\chapter}[hang]{\normalfont\huge\bfseries}{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter:}{1em}{} 

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter*{Resum\'{e}}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Resum\'{e}}
\chaptermark{Rresum\'{e}}
aaa
\newpage
aaa
\end{document}

Best Answer

Change the definition of \chaptermark to

\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{%
  \ifnum\value{chapter}>0
    \markboth{Chapter \thechapter{}: #1}{}%
  \else
    \markboth{#1}{}%
  \fi}

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[Tex/LaTex] Problem with \chapter* and fancyhdr

This is a very common problem. The \chapter* command doesn't update the marks that are used for the headers, while \listoftables does.

So the result is that after

\mainmatter
\chapter*{Introduccion}

The simplest and more effective remedy is to issue

\markboth{Introduccion}{Introduccion}

since you're removing the usual uppercasing done by the book class; you could also, for doing like the \listof... commands, type

\markboth{\MakeUppercase{Introduccion}}{\MakeUppercase{Introduccion}}

so the style will be the same even if you eventually decide not to use fancyhdr.

However, the best option, in my opinion, is to number also the introduction and forget about all these problems.

A couple of words about your style. I prefer to have a package loading section and then a setup section in the preamble. Also, pdftex should not be passed to graphicx. Instead of redefining \cleardoublepage it's simpler to load the emptypage package.

I removed the settings to \clubpenalty and \widowpenalty to 10000, because this doesn't really solve the problems with club and widow lines. Reinstate them, if you prefer. Also setting a nonzero parskip should be avoided: it hinders readability rather than enhancing it, particularly in presence of short paragraphs, producing loads of white strips on the page.

Last, I added headheight=14.5pt as requested by fancyhdr.

Here's an edited version (kantlipsum is just for producing some nonsense text).

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,twoside]{book}

\usepackage[
  bottom=25mm,
  top=25mm,
  left=30mm,
  right=25mm,
  headheight=14.5pt,
]{geometry}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[spanish, es-tabla]{babel}

\usepackage{kantlipsum} % for populating the document

\usepackage{morefloats}
\usepackage{eurosym}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{emptypage}
\usepackage[pagebackref=true]{hyperref}
\hypersetup{%
    bookmarks=true,         % barra de marcadores
    unicode=false,          % caracteres non-Latin en marcadores de Acrobat
    pdftoolbar=true,        % mostrar barra de herramientas de Acrobat
    pdfmenubar=true,        % mostrar menú de Acrobat
    pdffitwindow=false,     % ajustar ventana al ancho de página
    pdfstartview={FitH},    % ajustar documento al ancho de página
    pdftitle={Memoria PFC}, % título
    pdfauthor={},           % autor
    pdfsubject={},          % tema del documento
    pdfcreator={},          % generador del documento
    pdfproducer={},         % productor del documento
    pdfkeywords={},         % lista de palabras clave
    pdfnewwindow=true,      % enlaces en una nueva ventana
    colorlinks=true,        % false: enlaces en caja; true: enlaces coloreados
    linkcolor=blue,         % color de enlaces internos
    citecolor=green,        % color de enlaces a bibliografía
    filecolor=magenta,      % color de enlaces a ficheros
    urlcolor=blue           % color de enlaces externos
}

\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[EL]{\nouppercase\leftmark} 
\fancyhead[OR]{\nouppercase\rightmark}
\fancyhead[ER,OL]{\thepage}

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}

\begin{document}

\frontmatter

\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\listoftables

\mainmatter

\chapter*{Introduccion}
\markboth{Introduccion}{Introduccion}

\kant

\chapter{Abc}

\section{Def}

\kant

\begin{table}
\caption{X}
\end{table}

\begin{figure}
\caption{Y}
\end{figure}

\kant

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Page number on the left with book class

Here's a solution that uses the titletoc package; the important part of the code is

% chapter formatting in toc
\titlecontents{chapter}
[0.0cm]             % left margin
{}                  % above code
{%                  % numbered format
{\llap{\thecontentspage\hspace{.5cm}}\thecontentslabel~}%
}%
{}         % unnumbered format
{}         % filler-page-format, e.g dots

screenshot

Here's a complete MWE to play with.

% arara: pdflatex
% arara: pdflatex
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{titletoc}

% chapter formatting in toc
\titlecontents{chapter}
[0.0cm]             % left margin
{}                  % above code
{%                  % numbered format
{\llap{\thecontentspage\hspace{.5cm}}\thecontentslabel~}%
}%
{}         % unnumbered format
{}         % filler-page-format, e.g dots

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\chapter{mychapter} 
\section{mysection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\section{mysection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\chapter{mychapter} 
\section{mysection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\section{mysection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\chapter{mychapter} 
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Problem with \chapter* and fancyhdr

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