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I'm writing a custom class based on book.cls for our office's publication series, but I've hit a problem in how to set up a conditional.

Some of the publications are part->chapter->section while others are just chapter->section. Our publication format requires that the alternating page footers are short title (odd page) and either part or chapter (even page).

My question is: how can I determine of a document structure has parts, and if so change the footer accordingly?

JSCard
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    after a part the \value{part} will be bigger than 0, if you want to know from the start that the document has parts either you will need to invent a new command that declares that, or at end of document write the value of the part counter to the aux file so detect on the next run whether parts are used – David Carlisle Dec 09 '15 at 18:56
  • I would guess that if I test \value{part}>0 in the class definition (i.e. \ifnum \value{part}>0...\fi) for the header/footer to conditionally set/define a partmark instead of chaptermark? – JSCard Dec 23 '15 at 15:25
  • @DavidCarlisle, that worked great... nested an \ifnum \value{part} >\m@ne to test for part else set chaptermark. If you drop your comment to an answer, I'll mark it. – JSCard Dec 29 '15 at 17:53

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Here's a modification of https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/241999/4427

\documentclass{book}

\usepackage{fancyhdr,etoolbox}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\usepackage{lipsum} % just for the example


\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancyfoot[CE]{Short title}
\fancyfoot[CO]{\leftmark}
\fancyfoot[LE,RO]{\thepage}

\newif\ifpartused
\newcommand{\partmark}[1]{%
  \markboth{Part \thepart: #1}{}%
  \global\partusedtrue
}
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{%
  \ifpartused\else
    \markboth{Chapter \thechapter: #1}{}%
  \fi
}
\newcommand{\stopparts}{\global\partusedfalse}
\makeatletter
\@ifundefined{H@old@part}
  {\patchcmd{\@part}}
  {\patchcmd{\H@old@part}}
  {\markboth{}{}}
  {\partmark{#1}}
  {}{}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\mainmatter

\chapter{Introduction}

\lipsum[1-30]

\part{First Part}

\chapter{Title A}

\lipsum[1-30]

\stopparts

\chapter{\bibname}

\lipsum[1-30]

\end{document}

If you comment out \part, you get chapters in the footer. Works with or without hyperref.

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  • Thanks @egreg, but I'm doing this in a custom class file and trying to stay away from using fancyhdr if I can. It would require a lot of re-coding for some other things I'm doing in there. – JSCard Dec 29 '15 at 17:51
  • @Scard The information you gave was insufficient, then. Do you just use the standard \pagestyle{headings}? Or do you define a new one? It's impossible to know what you have in the class, isn't it? – egreg Dec 29 '15 at 17:54
  • @ egreg yes... I re-wrote the \pagestyle{headings} in the custom class to test the \value{part} and set the marks accordingly. Your solution would work great otherwise. Meant no slight to your answer, just not quite what I was aiming for. I needed to figure out how to test the conditional case for some other things in there as well. – JSCard Dec 29 '15 at 17:58