\chapter \chapter* and page header

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:35:25 +0200, Stefan Kost
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a command I can use to change the title for the header. Any other
> suggestions?
>
from http://www.iam.ubc.ca/~newbury/tex/page-set-up.html :
...
\markboth{left}{right}  (appears on left and right pages) or
\markright{right} (appears on right pages only)
...

For one project I created a \Chap command that invoked \chapter then
set the header the way *I* wanted with \markboth.  You could probably
define a \Chap*
that invoked \chapter* but sets your headers (and optionally puts the
unnumbered chapter in the TOC too).

Hope this helps,
--Joel