Btukfyl

I'm having a problem with chapter*{} and fancyhdr. I want to start the first chapter of my thesis with a introduction section, appearing in the TOC but without numeration, that's why I use:

chapter*{Introduccion} 

and

addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Introduccion}

at the beginning of the Introduccion.tex file, but I don't know why, the fancyhdr header shows "list of tables" instead of "Introduccion"!

(the list of tables is immediately before the introduction).

Here is my code:

documentclass[a4paper,12pt,twoside]{book}

%

usepackage[bottom=25mm,top=25mm, left=30mm, right=25mm]{geometry}

%

parskip=8pt

%

widowpenalty=10000

clubpenalty=10000

%

usepackage[spanish, es-tabla]{babel}

usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}

usepackage{morefloats}

%

setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}

usepackage{eurosym}

usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}

usepackage{pdfpages}

usepackage[pagebackref=true]{hyperref}

hypersetup{%

    bookmarks=true,         % barra de marcadores

    unicode=false,          % caracteres non-Latin en marcadores de Acrobat

    pdftoolbar=true,        % mostrar barra de herramientas de Acrobat

    pdfmenubar=true,        % mostrar menú de Acrobat

    pdffitwindow=false,     % ajustar ventana al ancho de página

    pdfstartview={FitH},    % ajustar documento al ancho de página

    pdftitle={Memoria PFC}, % título

    pdfauthor={},           % autor

    pdfsubject={},          % tema del documento

    pdfcreator={},          % generador del documento

    pdfproducer={},         % productor del documento

    pdfkeywords={},         % lista de palabras clave

    pdfnewwindow=true,      % enlaces en una nueva ventana

    colorlinks=true,        % false: enlaces en caja; true: enlaces coloreados

    linkcolor=blue,         % color de enlaces internos

    citecolor=green,        % color de enlaces a bibliografía

    filecolor=magenta,      % color de enlaces a ficheros

    urlcolor=blue           % color de enlaces externos

}

%

usepackage{fancyhdr}

pagestyle{fancy}

fancyhf{}

fancyhead[EL]{nouppercaseleftmark}

fancyhead[OR]{nouppercaserightmark}

fancyhead[ER,OL]{thepage}

%

makeatletter

%

defcleardoublepage{clearpageif@twoside ifoddc@pageelse

  hbox{}

  thispagestyle{empty}

  newpage

  if@twocolumnhbox{}newpagefififi}

makeatother

%

begin{document}

%

pagenumbering{gobble} % Las primeras paginas no quiero que se numeren

%

includepdf[pages={-}]{./Archivos/Portada_PFCccompleto.pdf}

input{./Archivos/Capitulos/pfc_dedicatoria}

input{./Archivos/Capitulos/pfc_agradecimientos}

include{./Archivos/Capitulos/pfc_abreviaturas}

%

% FRONTMATTER: TOC, LOF, LOT 

frontmatter

%

tableofcontents

listoffigures

listoftables

%

% MAINMATTER

%

mainmatter

include{./Archivos/Capitulos/pfc_intro}

include{./Archivos/Capitulos/pfc_main_010}

...

%

This is a very common problem. The chapter* command doesn't update the marks that are used for the headers, while listoftables does.

So the result is that after

mainmatter

chapter*{Introduccion}

The simplest and more effective remedy is to issue

markboth{Introduccion}{Introduccion}

since you're removing the usual uppercasing done by the book class; you could also, for doing like the listof... commands, type

markboth{MakeUppercase{Introduccion}}{MakeUppercase{Introduccion}}

so the style will be the same even if you eventually decide not to use fancyhdr.

However, the best option, in my opinion, is to number also the introduction and forget about all these problems.

A couple of words about your style. I prefer to have a package loading section and then a setup section in the preamble. Also, pdftex should not be passed to graphicx. Instead of redefining cleardoublepage it's simpler to load the emptypage package.

I removed the settings to clubpenalty and widowpenalty to 10000, because this doesn't really solve the problems with club and widow lines. Reinstate them, if you prefer. Also setting a nonzero parskip should be avoided: it hinders readability rather than enhancing it, particularly in presence of short paragraphs, producing loads of white strips on the page.

Last, I added headheight=14.5pt as requested by fancyhdr.

Here's an edited version (kantlipsum is just for producing some nonsense text).

documentclass[a4paper,12pt,twoside]{book}



usepackage[

  bottom=25mm,

  top=25mm,

  left=30mm,

  right=25mm,

  headheight=14.5pt,

]{geometry}



usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

usepackage[spanish, es-tabla]{babel}



usepackage{kantlipsum} % for populating the document



usepackage{morefloats}

usepackage{eurosym}

usepackage{graphicx}

usepackage{pdfpages}

usepackage{fancyhdr}

usepackage{emptypage}

usepackage[pagebackref=true]{hyperref}

hypersetup{%

    bookmarks=true,         % barra de marcadores

    unicode=false,          % caracteres non-Latin en marcadores de Acrobat

    pdftoolbar=true,        % mostrar barra de herramientas de Acrobat

    pdfmenubar=true,        % mostrar menú de Acrobat

    pdffitwindow=false,     % ajustar ventana al ancho de página

    pdfstartview={FitH},    % ajustar documento al ancho de página

    pdftitle={Memoria PFC}, % título

    pdfauthor={},           % autor

    pdfsubject={},          % tema del documento

    pdfcreator={},          % generador del documento

    pdfproducer={},         % productor del documento

    pdfkeywords={},         % lista de palabras clave

    pdfnewwindow=true,      % enlaces en una nueva ventana

    colorlinks=true,        % false: enlaces en caja; true: enlaces coloreados

    linkcolor=blue,         % color de enlaces internos

    citecolor=green,        % color de enlaces a bibliografía

    filecolor=magenta,      % color de enlaces a ficheros

    urlcolor=blue           % color de enlaces externos

}



pagestyle{fancy}

fancyhf{}

fancyhead[EL]{nouppercaseleftmark} 

fancyhead[OR]{nouppercaserightmark}

fancyhead[ER,OL]{thepage}



setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}



begin{document}



frontmatter



tableofcontents

listoffigures

listoftables



mainmatter



chapter*{Introduccion}

markboth{Introduccion}{Introduccion}



kant



chapter{Abc}



section{Def}



kant



begin{table}

caption{X}

end{table}



begin{figure}

caption{Y}

end{figure}



kant



end{document}

Try de-activating properties that you define of fancyhdr package, then put your chapter and your text and finally activates fancy properties again, but you have to be careful locating the lines to reactivate it:

listoftables  

fancyhf{} % sets both header and footer to nothing

renewcommand{headrulewidth}{0pt}

renewcommand{footrulewidth}{0pt}



chapter*{my-chapter-name}

blindtext   

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

%%%% NOTE: PAY ATTENTION HERE %%%%%%%%%%

%%%%

%%%%    If the text after the 'chapter*{my-chapter-name}':

%%%%    is more than one page, the lines after this note  should 

%%%%    be exactly after the first paragraph of the second page

%%%%

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%    

pagestyle{fancy}                   

fancyfoot{}

fancyhead{}

fancyhead[L]{scriptsize leftmark}

fancyfoot[L]{scriptsize rightmark}

fancyhead[R]{thepage}

renewcommand{headrulewidth}{0.5pt}

renewcommand{footrulewidth}{0.5pt}