>>>
>>> You may refer to running headers with \leftmark and \rightmark.
>>> AFAIR, most classes require no other options than \pagestyle{fancy}
>>> to get these. What happens if you don't redefine \chead and \rhead as
>>> empty ?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I don't know how \leftmark and \rightmark works.
>>
>>If i don't redefine \chead and \rhead then the chapter is presented in the
>>header. that's ok, but chapters with no numbering are not displayed.
They won't work for unnumbered chapters.
Here I define commands for unnumbered chapters:
this one sends the chapter title in the TOC and on both right and page headers,
but the page where the chapter begins:
\newcommand{\tocchap}[1]{\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\protect\numberline
{}#1}\markboth{\textsc{#1}}{\textsc{#1}}\thispagestyle{plain}}
this one is the new \chapterstar to be used instead of \chapter*
\newcommand{\chapterstar}[1]{\chapter*{#1}\tocchap{#1}}
and the layout of the document is edited to get chapterstar in the style list.
>>The easiest thing would be just a macro like "\thepage", which give's me
>>the name of the chapter.
The command name is \chaptername, but it's more appropriate to use \chaptermark
and
\leftmark command to manage these: \chaptermark defines the running header and
\leftmark retrieves it,
see the Companion for explanantions.
I use fancyplain here, and a complete customization of the running headers for
a report:
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{
\markboth{\textsc{\thechapter.\ #1}}{}}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{
\markright{\textsc{\thesection\ #1}}}
\rhead[\fancyplain{}{\it\leftmark}]{\fancyplain{\rm\thepage}{\rm\thepage}}
\chead{}
\lhead[\fancyplain{\rm\thepage}{\rm\thepage}]{\fancyplain{}{\it\rightmark}}
HTH
--
Jean-Pierre
