[texhax] Simple question?

[Manoj Kummini]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 18:56:02hrs +0530, Prof. Sudhir R. Ghorpade wrote:

> Hi! In a large LaTeX file with \documentclass{book}
> I have several chapters, each with several sections. 
> I don't want to number some sections; so I use: 
>    \section*{Secname} 
> This works nicely and the section title "Secname" also 
> appears in the Table of Contents with no number. However, 
> in the headers for the pages, which usually alternate between
>   Chapter Name  and Section Name 
> I get the name of the previous section (where * was not
> used) rather than Secname. 
> 
> How can I arrange "Secname" (without any number) to appear 
> in the header without having to change \section* to \section?

You can use a \markright{<whatever you want>} immediately after \section*,
or put them together into a \mysection.

Manoj.

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Manoj Kummini
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