Stop memoir from making mathmode section names uppercase in header

Question

I'm typesetting my thesis with memoir and in general I'm happy with the result. However, some of my section headers have math mode text like \section{The $\phi_{ij}$ matrix} which memoir comically turns into $\phi_{IJ}$ in the header. I'm new to memoir so I don't really know my way around.

Is there a way to tell it to leave mathmode in lower case when it prints the header?

I'm using XeLaTeX with TeX live downloaded yesterday via tlmgr. Full example, including possibly interfering packages:

\documentclass[12pt]{memoir} 
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage[margin=1.4in]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{changepage}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{standalone}
\usepackage[section]{placeins}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage{supertabular}
\usepackage{nth}
\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
\linespread{1.5}
\begin{document}

\chapter{This is a chapter}

\section{The $\phi_{ij}$ Matrix}

\chapter{Another chapter}

\section{Density - $\omega^j_c$}

\end{document}

This is how it looks: Example of rendering

Using \section{Density - \lowercase{$\omega^j_c$}} suppresses the capitalization. — Werner, Jan 24 '12 at 21:24
Ok, I guess that will work. But is there a way to tell memoir to wrap all mathmode lines in headers with \lowercase? — mmdanziger, Jan 24 '12 at 21:26
Just discovered an almost identical question with a different solution: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/40421/how-to-prevent-upper-case-in-page-header — mmdanziger, Jan 24 '12 at 21:34

score 10 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 24 '12 at 23:05

If you want uppercase headings, it's sufficient to say

\usepackage[overload]{textcase}

that will change \MakeUppercase and \MakeLowercase into "math-aware" commands.

Aside

I should mention a few things about your preamble.

hyperref should be loaded last;
It's a bit strange to load both longtable and supertabular
memoir has its own way to set the line spacing and saying only \linespread{1.5} is quite defective in many situations
When you have math in a section title, consider using \texorpdfstring: for instance
```
\section{Density --- \texorpdfstring{$\omega^j_c$}{omega j c}}
```
that avoids many messages by hyperref

barbara beeton · Answer 2 · 2012-01-24T22:44:48.070

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actually, this does appear to be standard behavior of memoir. here are a few definitions from memoir.cls:

\newcommand*{\nouppercaseheads}{\let\memUChead\relax}
\newcommand*{\uppercaseheads}{\let\memUChead\MakeUppercase}
\uppercaseheads

try adding \nouppercaseheads in your preamble.

really, the \MakeUppercase should be changed to something "math-aware" like the \uppercasenonmath defined in the ams document classes. (i've written to the maintainer of memoir.cls to suggest it.)

edited Jan 24 '12 at 22:44

answered Jan 24 '12 at 21:37

barbara beeton

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How would I combine the \uppercasenonmath with memoir? It could be that lower case headers are better in general but I'd like to know how to tell just the math to be left alone. – mmdanziger Jan 24 '12 at 21:58
@StefanKottwitz, sorry for the lack of clarity. The title and tags pointed to header but I was sloppy on the question. – mmdanziger Jan 24 '12 at 22:00
@mmdanziger: Thanks for clarifying! I removed my comments, perhaps to the same, so the question stands clear, for future readers. I'll remove this mine too :-) – Stefan Kottwitz Jan 24 '12 at 22:39
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I've added it to my todo list, I'm not going to fix it, but rather provide some features like the ones ams use. I personally do not like using uppercase headings, (1) takes up to much space, (2) in these web days, uppercasing equal shouting ... – daleif Jan 25 '12 at 10:20

Stop memoir from making mathmode section names uppercase in header

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