Rich Shepard wrote: > When using the fancy pagestyle, why do section titles appear in the header > only when the sections are numbered? When using unnumbered sections I need > to explicitly use the fancyhdr package and define the headers manually. > > I'd like to understand why there is the difference.
Well, it's a design decision. The starred headings (\section* etc.) in LaTeX are defined to be excluded from TOC and headers. Look here how to get unnumbered headings that are in the TOC and the headers: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unsorted#toc22 Jürgen