Clicking in Header or Footer

Question

I would like to know if it is possible in LaTeX to have automatically the current section name of a document reported in the page header or footer, with the possibility to jump back to the beginning of this current section by a click on this section name in the header or footer.

Same question for chapter.

Good question. Try consulting the hyperref as well as the titlesec documentations, if you don't get an answer (although I doubt it). — thymaro, Jan 20 '18 at 11:37
Please tell us more about your document setup. E.g., which document class do you employ? Do you use thefancyhdr package (or something similar)? — Mico, Jan 20 '18 at 11:43
I use the Book KomaScript class and I am ready to use either fancyhdr or scrlayer-scrpage packages (for what I know). — Emile, Jan 20 '18 at 12:07
I may be wrong but I have not seen the question adressed in hyperref or titlesec documentation. — Emile, Jan 20 '18 at 12:37
I think it is a dublicate of https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/122792/breadcrumb-hyperlink-header — sergiokapone, Jan 20 '18 at 13:13

wimi · Answer 1 · 2018-01-20T14:09:08.677

Here is a solution using the scrbook class, the hyperref package, and the \automark option of scrlayer-scrpage. You can hide the links by adding the hidelinks option to hyperref. The command

\automark[section]{section}

updates the \headmark command to be the title of the current section for both even and odd pages. Then, the command

\ohead{\hyperlink{section.\arabic{chapter}.\arabic{section}}{\headmark}}

sets the outer header to be a hyperlink whose text is \headmark and whose target is the beginning of the current section. Note that the first page of a chapter does not have a header by default.

You can also produce links to chapters instead of sections by uncommenting the corresponding code below.

\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage{nameref}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}
\usepackage{hyperref}

% Use this to link to sections on both sides
\automark[section]{section}
\ohead{\hyperlink{section.\arabic{chapter}.\arabic{section}}{\headmark}}

% Use this to link to chapters on both sides
%\automark[chapter]{chapter}
%\ohead{\hyperlink{chapter.\arabic{chapter}}{\headmark}}

% Use this to link to chapters on even pages and sections on odd pages
%\automark[section]{chapter}
%\lehead{\hyperlink{chapter.\arabic{chapter}}{\headmark}}
%\rohead{\hyperlink{section.\arabic{chapter}.\arabic{section}}{\headmark}}

\pagestyle{scrheadings}

\begin{document}
    \chapter{Ch1}   
    \section{Ch1, S1}
    \lipsum[1-8]

    \section{Ch1, S2}
    \lipsum[1-8]

    \section{Ch1, S3}
    \lipsum[1-8]

    \chapter{Ch2}
    \section{Ch2, S1}
    \lipsum[1-8]
    \section{Ch2, S2}
    \lipsum[1-8]
    \section{Ch2, S3}
    \lipsum[1-8]
\end{document}

Same remark than for the first proposed solution, it works only for the numbered chapters and sections and not for the unnumbered ones of the scrbook class. — Emile, Jan 20 '18 at 17:30

sergiokapone · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-20T20:27:32.130

Possible solution for book class with defining own pagestyle:

\documentclass[]{book}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{lipsum} 

\makeatletter

\def\ps@myheadings{
\def\chaptermark##1{%
      \markboth {\protect\hyperlink{\@currentHref}{\MakeUppercase{%
        \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne
          \if@mainmatter
            \@chapapp\ \thechapter. \ %
          \fi
        \fi
        ##1}}}{}}%

\def\schaptermark##1{%
      \markboth {\protect\hyperlink{\@currentHref}{\MakeUppercase{%
        \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne
        \fi
        ##1}}}{}}%

    \def\sectionmark##1{%
      \markright {\protect\hyperlink{\@currentHref}{\MakeUppercase{%
        \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\z@
          \thesection. \ %
        \fi
        ##1}}}} 

    \def\ssectionmark##1{%
      \markright {\protect\hyperlink{\@currentHref}{\MakeUppercase{%
        ##1}}}} 

}

\def\schapter#1{
\chapter*{#1}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{#1}
\phantomsection
\schaptermark{#1}
}

\def\ssection#1{
\section*{#1}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{#1}
\phantomsection
\ssectionmark{#1}
}

\makeatother
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{myheadings}
\tableofcontents


\schapter{Intro}


\lipsum

\ssection{One}


\lipsum

\lipsum

\section{Two}

\lipsum

\chapter{title}

\lipsum

\section{One}

\lipsum

\end{document}

Solution for KOMA (based on answer of javi_gg1):

\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[automark]{scrlayer-scrpage}
\usepackage{hyperref}


\makeatletter
\def\chaptermark#1{%
      \markboth {\protect\hyperlink{\@currentHref}{\MakeUppercase{%
        \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne
          \if@mainmatter
            \@chapapp\ \thechapter. \ %
          \fi
        \fi
        #1}}}{}}%
    \def\sectionmark#1{%
      \markright {\protect\hyperlink{\@currentHref}{\MakeUppercase{%
        \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\z@
          \thesection. \ %
        \fi
        #1}}}} 
\makeatother

\ohead{\leftmark}
\rohead{\rightmark}

\pagestyle{scrheadings}

\begin{document}
    \tableofcontents
    \addchap[Intro]{Intro}

    \lipsum

    \chapter{Ch1}  

    \section{Ch1, S1}
    \lipsum[1-8]

    \section{Ch1, S2}
    \lipsum[1-8]

    \section{Ch1, S3}
    \lipsum[1-8]

    \chapter{Ch2}
    \section{Ch2, S1}
    \lipsum[1-8]
    \section{Ch2, S2}
    \lipsum[1-8]
    \section{Ch2, S3}
    \lipsum[1-8]
\end{document}

This is a very dirty hack given that KOMA has many options to create own page styles. — TeXnician, Jan 20 '18 at 16:59
@TeXnicain Yes, I agree with you. I change answer for standart book class. — sergiokapone, Jan 20 '18 at 17:05
I checked it for scrbook class. It works for numbered chapters and sections but it fails for unnumbered ones proposed by scrbook and obtained with \addchap and \addsec. — Emile, Jan 20 '18 at 17:18
@Emile I had changed the code, but you need some additional complification for writing stared sectioning commands. — sergiokapone, Jan 20 '18 at 19:05
@sergiokapone Is there a difficulty to handle the \addchap and \addsec ? They are unnumbered sectionning which appear in the table of content. — Emile, Jan 20 '18 at 19:30
Ok, the solution for KOMA (based on answer of javi_gg1) works fine. Thanks to both of you ! — Emile, Jan 20 '18 at 22:17

Clicking in Header or Footer

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