Long section headings in footertexts

["Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>]

Hi all,

I have a user who likes to have long \chapter titles, like {This is my
title: with a whole lot of specific clarification}. When we set
footertexts to be [chapter], it collides into the opposite footer (date,
in this case).

What I'd like to do is have some way of picking up the first part of the
chapter title ("This is my title") and put only that into the footer
text. I would call this a "subtitle" in a way. It's related to the second
half of this complaint Bruce made back in August:

Bruce D'Arcus said this at Wed, 7 Aug 2002 12:55:16 -0400:

>Subtitles.  Aside from the fact that one often wants to format 
>subtitles differently than titles, generally speaking headers that 
>include titles should not also include subtitles (and there is what I 
>consider a bug with long titles such that they run into the header on 
>the other side, rather than breaking into two lines)

My temporary solution is to define an \AltFooter macro in the current
environment where the user can manually switch to a short version of the
chapter heading. As it is, however, I need a matching \ResetFooter macro
for the end of the chapter.

Anyone have any hints?

Cheers,
adam


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