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How to get chapter name in LaTeX PDF?
My goal for a LaTeX PDF that I created recently was to get the header of my pages to look something like this: where “Section Name” and “Chapter Name” are left-aligned in the header of the page, and would be dynamically replaced by the actual values of the current section and chapter names, respectively.
What does Chapter N mean in latex Stack Exchange?
The ‘Chapter N’ text is the value of the \\@chapapp macro, defined in the book document class. But… no need to tinker with that directly. See it refers you to the titlesec package and to these pages, with which you can change the chapter heading style.
How to remove Chapter N from the header?
But it appears at the beginning of a chapter, and on each page, in the header. To customize the headers/footers, one option is to use the fancyhdr package; a little example, suppressing the prefix “Chapter N” from the default headers, and with the text in normal case (no upper-case):
How to display chapter name in the header?
I need to display the chapter name with the \\chapter* command to the left side of the header. This is one example of what I tried: How can I do this? And consider using titlesec package rather using \\centerline as a visual formatting approach.
How to get the name of a section?
Don’t ask me why. Old question: I want to get the name of the current “section” (chapter, section, subsection.) without labeling the section. I tried using ameref with e.g. hechapter which obviously doesn’t work, as ameref expects a reference (the name of \\label) and not a number.
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Is the memoir class unmodified in TeX LaTeX?
If you use the standard classes that rely on the kernel commands for making headers, then here’s a possibility that works unmodified if the class is article (removing the \\chapter command, of course). For the memoir class there’s nothing to do: the class already provides \\currenttitle that does exactly what you want.