[Tex/LaTex] How to use short subsection title in header but not in table of contents

fancyhdrheader-footer

I have a (onesided) document with fancyhdr and pagestyle fancy so it displays the section-title on the right header and the subsection-title on the left header. If section and subsection titles are lengthy they start to overlap each other.

Example:

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\begin{document}

\section{some section with quite a lengthy title}
\lipsum
\subsection{very very very long title of subsection}
\lipsum

\end{document}

I know of two solutions:

give short section/subsection headings like in

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\begin{document}

\section[short section]{some section with quite a lengthy title}
\lipsum
\subsection[short subsection]{very very very long title of subsection}
\lipsum

\end{document}

I don't like this because I don't want to have the short version in my toc.

use \sectionmark like in

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\begin{document}

\section{some section with quite a lengthy title}
\sectionmark{short section}
\lipsum
\subsection{very very very long title of subsection}
\subsectionmark{short subsection}
\lipsum

\end{document}

But this just doesn't work right – the short subsection mark is not obeyed on page 2, but is used correctly on page 3. That feels just really wrong.

So, how can I make version 2 work 'right'?

Best Answer

This is answered in the TeX FAQ. On the left-hand pages the text used in the title is that of the first mark on the page, so your \subsectionmark is coming too late. This can be solved by adding this command again in the title itself:

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\section[some section with quite a lengthy title]{some section with quite 
a lengthy title%
\sectionmark{short section}}
\sectionmark{short section}
\lipsum

\subsection[very very very long title of subsection]{very very very long
title of subsection%
\subsectionmark{short subsection}}
\subsectionmark{short subsection}

\lipsum

\end{document}

Because of the way the writing to the table of contents works you will also have to add the full title to the optional argument of the \(sub)section command, as above. As this is rather clumsy, it is reasonable to introduced commands such as \markedsection to achieve this:

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\newcommand{\markedsection}[2]{\section[#2]{#2%
\sectionmark{#1}}
\sectionmark{#1}}

\newcommand{\markedsubsection}[2]{\subsection[#2]{#2%
\subsectionmark{#1}}
\subsectionmark{#1}}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\markedsection{short section}{Some section with quite a lengthy title}

\lipsum

\markedsubsection{short subsection}{Very very very long title of subsection}

\lipsum

\end{document}

For the standard cases, you can still use the ordinary commands.

If your are prepared to switch to the memoir class, then you will have sectioning commands that help this proceedure as they have two optional arguments: one for the head and one for the table of contents.

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] Roman numerals at the bottom

Does this produce the result you are looking for?

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,titlepage,oneside,final]{book}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
  \fancyhf{}
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
  \fancyhf[cf]{\thepage}
  \pagestyle{fancy}

\begin{document}

\frontmatter
\begin{titlepage}
{\bf Titlepage}\thispagestyle{empty}
\end{titlepage}
\pagenumbering{roman}
\stepcounter{page}% comment if the titlepage should not be counted

\newpage
\thispagestyle{empty}
{\bf included pdf}

\newpage
{\bf declaration}

\newpage
{\bf Acknowledgement}

\newpage
\thispagestyle{empty}
{\bf included pdf}

\tableofcontents


\mainmatter
\chapter*{introduction}
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{introduction}

\chapter{1st chapter}

\end{document}

This omits the number on the title page and included pdfs but counts them. (Comment the relevant line if you don't want to count the title page.)

title page, first included pdf, first numbered page shows 'iii' next three pages with included pdfs unnumbered but counted introduction starts arabic page numbering with '1'

EDIT: This does leave one problem which is not to do with the page numbering of the pages as such but, rather, with the way they are designated in a PDF viewer. Although the page shows 'iii', for example, the viewer will call this '3'. And although the introduction is labelled '1', the viewer will refer to it as '7'.

To address this, we need to use a package designed for dealing with electronic versions of documents rather than merely printed ones. hyperref will address this problem and bookmark may optionally be loaded for enhanced, but more experimental, handling of bookmarks.

The following code produces the same visual output on the page but persuades the PDF viewer to label the pages correctly. This version also updates the deprecated commands identified by Harish Kumar in the comments.

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,titlepage,oneside,final]{book}
\usepackage{hyperref}
%\usepackage{bookmark}%  uncomment for enhanced, but experimental, bookmark handling
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
  \fancyhf{}
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
  \fancyhf[cf]{\thepage}
  \pagestyle{fancy}

\begin{document}

\frontmatter
\begin{titlepage}
{\bfseries Titlepage}\thispagestyle{empty}% note use of \bfseries replacing obsolete \bf command
\end{titlepage}
\pagenumbering{roman}
\stepcounter{page}% comment if the titlepage should not be counted

\clearpage% replaces deprecated \newpage
\thispagestyle{empty}
{\bfseries included pdf}

\clearpage
{\bfseries declaration}

\clearpage
{\bfseries Acknowledgement}

\clearpage
\thispagestyle{empty}
{\bfseries included pdf}

\tableofcontents


\mainmatter
\chapter*{introduction}
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{introduction}

\chapter{1st chapter}

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Header problems

An alternative package to fancyhdr is scrlayer-scrpage. It can do what you want. Though i have to admit, i have no idea why you want the section titles in the header.

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,
%draft
]{report}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % utf8 reicht zu
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % ordentliche Trennung
\usepackage[french,USenglish,UKenglish,ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{lmodern} % ordentliche Schriften
\usepackage[babel,style=swiss,maxlevel=3,threshold=3]{csquotes}
\usepackage{extsizes}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage[top=2.5cm,bottom=3.5cm,left=2.5cm,right=4cm,
headheight=14.5pt% add a bit for the head
]{geometry}
\usepackage{lettrine}
\usepackage{indentfirst}
\usepackage{poetrytex}


% An alternative to fancyhdr
\usepackage[markcase=ignoreupper]{scrlayer-scrpage}
\clearpairofpagestyles
\automark[section]{section}
\ohead{\headmark}
\ofoot*{\pagemark}

\usepackage{titlesec}
\titlespacing{\chapter}{0pt}{24pt}{12pt}
\titlespacing{\section}{0pt}{24pt}{12pt}
\titlespacing{\subsection}{0pt}{24pt}{12pt}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{epigraph}
\setlength\epigraphwidth{0.75\textwidth}
\setlength\epigraphrule{0pt}
\renewcommand{\epigraphsize}{\small}
\renewcommand{\afterepigraphskip}{12pt}
\usepackage[]{acronym}


\usepackage{blindtext}%
\usepackage{xcolor}%
\usepackage{hyperref}% at the end


\begin{document}
\listoffigures
\blinddocument
\begin{figure}
\caption{Wombat}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

I made a few other changes and marked them with a short comment.

Best Answer

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] Roman numerals at the bottom

[Tex/LaTex] Header problems

Related Question