[Tex/LaTex] Remove name of section from header in pagestyle{fancy} (Notice: document class=article)

fancyhdrheader-footer

I am forced to use the document class: article, because of several packages that I use and format restrictions.

I have long names for some of the sections and subsections, so there is no room to display it all in the header.

I only use: section–>subsection–>subsubsection, no "chapter".

I wish the header to display only subsection names and numbers, not sections. How do I do that?

When I use \fancyhf{} everything disappears from the header.

I also tried a solution that I found on this website

\documentclass[oneside,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[L]{\slshape }
\fancyfoot[R]{Page \thepage\ of \pageref{LastPage}}

… but it doesn't display anything. I think the problem might be that the document class is different than what they had there, but I cannot change that.

Thanks for your help!

Best Answer

You need to redefine the commands which fills the marks:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand\sectionmark[1]{} %section doesn't set a mark
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\subsectionmark[1]{% but subsection should
 \markright{\MakeUppercase{\ifnum\c@secnumdepth >\m@ne \thesubsection \quad \fi #1}}}
\makeatother 
\begin{document}
\section{abc}\subsection{subsection}
\lipsum   
\end{document}

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

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.

[Tex/LaTex] Header on odd pages

Since you have to define the \headheight at the begining of the code within geometry package irredeemably, this will stablish that same height for the header throughout the document.

To change that, you can define a \newgeometry with the \headheight equal to 0pt at the begining of even pages, but you have to redefine your previous geometry in the next page again. This is a manual procedure, but I don't know another way to do that.

Here I post you some code. As you can see, I have defined two styles with \fancypagestyle, one for even pages and another one for de odd ones. If you want to disable the numbering of the pages, just remove the \fancyfoot and \renewcommand\footrulewidth lines inside each style.

\documentclass[12pt,twoside]{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage[a4paper,margin=2cm,includeheadfoot,headheight=44pt]{geometry}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\fancypagestyle{odd}{ % 
\fancyhf{} 
\fancyhead[OL]{COURSE}
\fancyhead[OR]{
    \begin{tabular}{ c c }
        NAME  & NO  \\
        NAME1 & xxx \\
        NAME2 & yyy \\
    \end{tabular}
    }
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt} 
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
}

\fancypagestyle{even}{ %
\fancyhf{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}  
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
}

\begin{document}

\thispagestyle{odd}

\lipsum[1-2]

\newpage

\thispagestyle{even}
\newgeometry{margin=2cm,includefoot,headheight=0pt} %Just \includefoot

\lipsum[1-2] 

\newpage

\thispagestyle{odd} 
\newgeometry{margin=2cm,includeheadfoot,headheight=44pt}

\lipsum[1-2]  

\end{document}

The first page is messed up because the \headheight is by default 12pt but should be 44pt in this case. Is there any way to calculate this automatically? I would like to avoid typing 44pt manually.

I don't know any way to avoid calculate this manually. Just compile your document and wait for the log message referring to the \headheight and set that lenght as minimum.

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