Document Classes ⇒ chapter headings without the word "chapter"

[philipmach]

I'm doing a paperback novel in A5 style (making the margins sensible is a chore but that's another story). On such a small page size, including the word "Chapter" in a chapter heading is a lot of noise. Using:

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\documentclass[12pt, a5paper]{book}

Is there an easy way to turn this extra word off so instead of

Chapter 1
Introducing the Hero

I get

1. Introducing the Hero

(or other punctuation between the "1" and the chapter title)?

Thanks.

Philip Machanick, Brisbane, Australia

[gmedina]

The titlesec package could be useful.

[philipmach]

Thanks -- also found

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\renewcommand{\chaptername}{}

as a simple way to get started.

[dimarcom]

Hi,

I would like the exact same layout mentioned above:

1. Introduction

instead of:

Chapter 1
Introduction

My problem is that I have to use minitoc to get a toc at each chapter, and it's incompatible with titlesec...
The command "\renewcommand{\chaptername}{}" does remove the word chapter, but there is still a skipped line between the "1" and the chapter title:

1
Introduction

which is quite ugly...
what would you recommend ?

thanks !

[Juanjo]

Put this in the preamble:

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\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@makechapterhead}[1]{%
\vspace*{50 pt}%
{\setlength{\parindent}{0pt} \raggedright \normalfont
\bfseries\Huge
\ifnum \value{secnumdepth}>1 
   \if@mainmatter\thechapter.\ \fi%
\fi
#1\par\nobreak\vspace{40 pt}}}
\makeatother

[Maksi]

Another solution: if you are using the standard book class, I would recommend using Memoir anyway. There, simply put \chapterstyle{section} into the preamble. For all default chapterstyles available in Memoir check this PDF.

[localghost]

Take a look at the KOMA Script Bundle. It offers more versatile classes (derived from the standard classes) as well as packages to customize the page layout. The bundle contains a detailed documentation in English language. The requested feature is also supported (default setting).


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[dimarcom]

Thanks all for your answers !
It's very useful.

I use the "manual" trick of JuanJo for now, and it works fine, thanks !

As for the Koma/memoir packages: is there one better than the other ? i work on TeXnic Center on Windows.

Thanks again, have a nice day !

[user]

Thank juanjo for the answer to my problem.

[nilesh82]

if you are using the report class the solution posted above by Juanjo will not work as conditional \if@mainmatter (without spaces) is only defined in the book class. Alternatively, to get the number following code can be used:

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\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@makechapterhead}[1]{%
\vspace*{50 pt}%
{\setlength{\parindent}{0pt} \raggedright \normalfont
\bfseries\Huge\thechapter.\ #1
\par\nobreak\vspace{40 pt}}}
\makeatother

Thanks again to Juanjo for this solution.