[texhax] the current section in \leftmark

[Barbara Beeton]

    > to change it you need to read up on how the headers are handled and
    > in particular the difference between \left- and \rightmark

    This is unfortunately way more difficult than I had hoped. I knew
    about leftmark and rightmark, but I thought that an easier way
    should exist. Hence my question.

there's also \topmark, which does give
the value of the first mark on a page.
						-- bb