Unwanted number in page header for Chapter*

[Manveru]

Hi,

Not directly LyX related, but maybe someone will be able to help me.

I am using Chapter* environment for my Prologue and Epilogue in mwbook
class document. However for these chapters I see Chapter 0. Prologue
and Chapter 8. Epilogue for chapters I do not want to number. Is there
any method to remove "Chapter X." part from page header for these two
chapters only?

My fancyheader settings from preamble:
\fancyhead[RO,LE]{\nouppercase{\leftmark}}
\fancyhead[LO,RE]{\nouppercase{\rightmark}}

Thank you for any advice.

[Julien Rioux]

Post by Manveru
Hi,
Not directly LyX related, but maybe someone will be able to help me.
I am using Chapter* environment for my Prologue and Epilogue in mwbook
class document. However for these chapters I see Chapter 0. Prologue
and Chapter 8. Epilogue for chapters I do not want to number. Is there
any method to remove "Chapter X." part from page header for these two
chapters only?
\fancyhead[RO,LE]{\nouppercase{\leftmark}}
\fancyhead[LO,RE]{\nouppercase{\rightmark}}
Thank you for any advice.

Assuming your class is derived from book, \markboth{}{} in LaTeX code
just after the Chapter* will clear the leftmark and rightmark.

[Manveru]

Post by Manveru
Hi,
Not directly LyX related, but maybe someone will be able to help me.
I am using Chapter* environment for my Prologue and Epilogue in mwbook
class document. However for these chapters I see Chapter 0. Prologue
and Chapter 8. Epilogue for chapters I do not want to number. Is there
any method to remove "Chapter X." part from page header for these two
chapters only?
\fancyhead[RO,LE]{\nouppercase{\leftmark}}
\fancyhead[LO,RE]{\nouppercase{\rightmark}}
Thank you for any advice.

Assuming your class is derived from book, \markboth{}{} in LaTeX code just
after the Chapter* will clear the leftmark and rightmark.

Great, that did what I want.

However I think that document class should support it by itself to
clean that up for Chapter*.

Thanks for hyou help!

[Julien Rioux]

Post by Manveru
Great, that did what I want.
However I think that document class should support it by itself to
clean that up for Chapter*.

True, I have no idea why the latex class doesn't fix that up for you.

Post by Manveru
Thanks for hyou help!

You're welcome!

[Steve Litt]

Post by Manveru

Post by Julien Rioux

Post by Manveru
Hi,
Not directly LyX related, but maybe someone will be able to help me.
I am using Chapter* environment for my Prologue and Epilogue in
mwbook class document. However for these chapters I see Chapter
0. Prologue and Chapter 8. Epilogue for chapters I do not want
to number. Is there any method to remove "Chapter X." part from
page header for these two chapters only?
\fancyhead[RO,LE]{\nouppercase{\leftmark}}
\fancyhead[LO,RE]{\nouppercase{\rightmark}}
Thank you for any advice.

Assuming your class is derived from book, \markboth{}{} in LaTeX
code just after the Chapter* will clear the leftmark and
rightmark.

Great, that did what I want.
However I think that document class should support it by itself to
clean that up for Chapter*.
Thanks for hyou help!

My experience is that in the long run, using any of the * environments
is walking the trail of tears. Given that I usually have these outside
the book's "official" chapters, I usually make my own environment,
without a counter and with big print, and use that. I insert my own
home made environments with the proper TeX commands to include in the
table of contents and to make the new part into a section.

SteveT


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