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Great - thanks for that :)

I had to tweak it a bit and use the * option, but in the end, the following owrked perfectly:

\renewcommand*\thechapter{\arabic{chapter}\hspace*{-0.3cm}}
\chapter{\sffamily{#1}}
\renewcommand*\thechapter{\arabic{chapter}}

For some reason the 1 required a slightly ...

Any ideas?

That seems to work for the number "1" but not for any of the other chapters - they are offset too much to the right now. Can you explain what the code does so maybe I can understand what you're trying to do better?

If there is whitespace around the number, how can I disable that?

Also, your hack ...

Thanks for your response. I don't understand what you mean though - how can the number be too wide to be right-aligned?

I tried with times and it's slightly better but still not fully over to the right. Is there any way of including a manual offset?

Cheers,

Sorry about that, I didn't think a MWE would be necessary as it's just the alignment that needs fixing. This should work:

\documentclass[a4paper,english]{book}

%make borders narrower

\setlength{\topmargin}{-.05in}
\setlength{\textheight}{9in}
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{.25in}
\setlength ...

Any ideas?

I'm using quotchap with the avantgarde setting for my chapter headings. Unfortunately, the large grey chapter number is not aligned to the right correctly and is too far to the left unlike the chapter title. Is there an easy way to manually fix this?

For reference, the following is a simple enough semi-hack solution:

Hi, newbie to TeX with a dumb question.

I'm using natbib to process my Author-Date citations (\bibpunct[:~]{(}{)}{;}{a}{}{;}) and am aware how to make multiple citations:

\citep{Ref1,Ref2}

Giving: (Author1 2002; Author2 2008)

However, I am also using arguments to give page numbers, eg ...