Nomenclature header problems

Question

I'm writing a document in book class, using the fancyhdr package. I have both an index, and a symbol list, for which I use the imakeidx and nomencl packages. I had problems with getting the right headers for both. I managed to set the index straight, by using \indexsetup{level=\chapter} (which works fine since \backmatter had already been declared). However, I couldn't find out how do to the same for the nomenclature, so I ended up manually calling \markboth directly after \printnomenclature. This works, but feels dodgy (e.g., if I switched the order of the two, the \markboth affected the last chapter).

I was hoping someone had a better solution to this problem.

Answer 1

If you have the \printnomenclature command after \backmatter, it's simple:

\usepackage{nomencl}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\patchcmd{\thenomenclature}{\chapter*}{\chapter}{}{}

In this way, the thenomenclature package will issue \chapter{\nomname} and the entry will set the headings and the annotation for the table of contents. Don't add the intoc option to nomencl.