I asked a question to get 'chapter name' and 'section' in the header in the following link : \markboth is not working when using \chapter and \section. Now I have decided to replace the section name
with 'book name' in the header in the same question posted earlier. I have tried to change it in the following way :
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{book}
\usepackage[vmargin=0.2cm,hmargin=1cm,head=16pt,includeheadfoot]{geometry}
\usepackage{fancyhdr,amsthm}
\pagestyle{fancy}
% We don't want chapter and section numbers
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{#1}{}}
%\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{#1}}
\fancyhead{}
\fancyfoot{}
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\thepage}
\fancyhead[LO]{\slshape\rightmark}
\fancyhead[RE]{\slshape\leftmark}
\theoremstyle{plain}
\newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}[section]
\newtheorem{corollary}[theorem]{Corollary}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Chapter}
\section{Section}
\markboth{book name}{section name}
\begin{theorem}
Theorem
\end{theorem}
\newpage
Second page
\newpage
Third page
\end{document}
But 'book name' is not appearing in the header. What is the required command to have 'book name' in odd pages and 'chapter name' in even pages ?
Best Answer
Issuing explicit
\markboth
commands in the document body is a last resource.Just tell
fancyhdr
what you want;\leftmark
is just a (probably badly chosen) name, it "contains" the last thing has been specified as the first argument in a\markboth
command, which is usually implicit in\chapter
(more precisely,\chapter
does\chaptermark
which in turn executes\markboth
).