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My solution was to relax the requirements, moving the leftbar out of the textwidth so that the amount of width that the chapter body gets remains constant throughout the document.

It looks beautiful, except manually inserting \framebreak is a deathblow because it will make it inflexible to modifications, and automatic formatting is the main reason for using latex, at least for me. I suppose if no better solutions are coming, I might consider moving the leftbar outside the ...

I am attempting to achieve the chapter heading layout in the attached image.

My first issue was that the background color should stretch across the entire textwidth. I tried \colorbox without the tabular environment but that resulted in several issues:

1) There was a separation between the chapter ...

The attached picture shows a chapter layout that I have been trying to achieve in latex. The major feature causing me difficulty is the chapter title on the left of the page in a vertical bar. This bar should appear only on the first page of the chapter, and should be within the \textwidth.

I have ...