>>Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 06:29:11 -0700 (PDT)
>>From: Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Running heads in chapters
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>>
>> I've come up against this problem before but now is the time to learn how
>>to fix it. Environment is LyX-1.3.2 on linux.
>>
>> I am writing a book and the document class is book (koma-script). Page
>>headings contain both the chapter name and section title. Sometimes these two
>>titles are multiple words and the characters overlap to produce gibberish on
>>the viewed pdflatex output seen in acroread. Other times, the running head
>>is typeset on two lines to avoid the overlap.
>>
>> Is any of this under my control? Is it a result of the document class
>>and/or fancy headers? What can I do to prevent this overlap in all cases?
If the class feeds the fancy headers with \chaptermark and \sectionmark,
you may tune this there by redfining these markers in the preamble.
Here on a local class e.g., the marks are redfined in small caps:
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{
\markboth{\textsc{\thechapter.\ #1}}{}}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{
\markright{\textsc{\thesection\ #1}}}
I guess you may encapsulate in a \parbox to get exactly the layout you want
(personnally I prefer tu use the \chapter[short title]{long title} way).
--
Jean-Pierre
