General ⇒ Header width

[gregatustra]

Hello there,

i have my header defined like this:

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\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead{}
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{\textsf{Chapter \thechapter:\ #1}}{}}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{\textsf{\thesection\  #1}}{}}
\fancyhead[RE]{\leftmark}
\fancyhead[LO]{\rightmark}
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\thepage}
\fancyfoot{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.0pt}

The problem is, if my section/chapter is too long, it gets too close to the page number. If very long, the header is printed ok in 2 lines but still the page number is too close. Anybody has an idea of how to solve this?

Two pictures of my headers are attached (at page 10 of my document).

Tnx,
Greg

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi gregatustra,

that's explained in the fancyhdr user's manual: 12 The width of the headers and footers.

Stefan

[gregatustra]

I can't get it working with:

\fancyheadoffset[place]{offset}

because all i can set is the left and right offset of the entire header. This results in:

1. the entire header being moved left or right on the page
2. the header being resized

But i would like the header to remain exactly the same size (entire text width), just the chapter/section name of the header to be resized (the page number should stay where it is).

Is this possible?

tnx,
Greg

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Greg,

another idea is to limit the width of the chapter mark by a parbox.For example:

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\newcommand*\stdleftmark{}
\let\stdleftmark\leftmark
\renewcommand*\leftmark{\parbox[b]{0.96\textwidth}{\hfill\stdleftmark}}

0.96\textwidth was written quickly, alternatively you may use the calc package to subtract a certain width from \textwidth.
Similar for \rightmark.

But also consider to use the optional parameter of \chapter and \section: \chapter[short text]{long text}

Stefan

[gregatustra]

Tnx, i actually used minipage instead of parbox to make it work, otherwise in a twoline header the text was not left aligned corrrectly.

Greg