On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 7:25 PM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 13:39:43 +0200
> Liviu Andronic <landr...@lyx.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 3:07 AM, Steve Litt
>> <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I'm using LyX 2.1.4, fancyhdr, I've customized even and odd page
>> > headers to report current chapter and current section,
>> > respectively. On even numbered pages, moderate length chapter names
>> > crash into the page number. Short ones right justify away from the
>> > page number, and long ones wrap so that the page number isn't
>> > touched, but moderate length chapter names overwrite the rightmost
>> > digit or two of the page number.
>
>> Have you tried Short Titles for the offending headings?
>>
>> Liviu
>
> No, I'd forgotten about that, thanks for reminding me.
>
> But even so, short names would be coathangering the symptom rather than
> fixing the root cause. Here's why...
>
> If the line's long enough to wrap, this problem doesn't occur. If it's
> way shorter than the space allotted, this problem doesn't occur. But if
> it's in the middle, the problem occurs. What's happening is that the
> text part of the header, the part that isn't the page number, is using
> too wide a width to word wrap. Let me repeat: Long names aren't the
> problem. Middle length names are the problem.
>
> That's the root cause. To fix this with short names I'd need to make
> the names extremely short: So short as to be confusing to the reader.
>
> So, given that, does anyone know a way to get the text part of the
> header to wrap in a smaller width, so it doesn't crash into the page
> number to its left?
>
I would suggest that this is a good question for
http://tex.stackexchange.com/ . I'd wager you'll find there a LaTeX
expert with a solution within the day (or an already existing question
on this). I would expect this would have to do with some penalty of
sorts either from LaTeX or from fancyhdr.

Regards,
Liviu


> Thanks,
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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