>
>>>>
>>>> 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}}
>
thank you for your code. it helps me to understand little more. the
following code makes what i want -- but not for chapters with no
numbering. why, please? how to fix?
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{#1}{}}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{\thesection.\ #1}}
\lhead{\nouppercase{\leftmark}}
\chead{}
\rhead{}
