Theses, Books, Title pages ⇒ Chapter title too long for the box

[templateuser]

Hello all,

I have tried to play with the line

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\draw[anchor=west] (1.5cm,-5.5cm)
  node [rounded corners=20pt,fill=ocre!10!white,text opacity=1,draw=ocre,draw opacity=1,
        line width=1.5pt,fill opacity=.85,inner sep=12pt]
    {\LARGE\sffamily\bfseries\textcolor{black}{Chapter \thechapter. #1\strut\makebox[22cm]{}}};

Unfortunately I don't get it to work: when the chapter title is too long, I would like the line to break (like the normal behavior of chapter). Is there a way to get this behavior?

thank you.

Best

egiem

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi egiem,

sure, TikZ just needs to know the width of the box for automatically breaking the line. You can use the text width key in the node options, such as

node [text width=22cm, ...] {long text}

or, as you already like to use a box (I see \makebox) you simply use a \parbox command in the node content text.

Stefan

[Kotsos81]

Hello Stefan_K,

due to the fact that I am a new user of LaTeX, could you please post a working example with the required modifications you suggest? I don't know how to do what you said in your previous reply.

Thank you.

Kostas

[Kotsos81]

Stefan,

I achieved what I wanted using the text width option, as you suggested! The only difference is that I had not to use the long text argument. (When I did, there was an error outputted - but nevermind, it works without that!) A million thanks!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Kostas,

great that it works for you too! Thank you for the feedback.

And welcome to the forum! Maybe see you again here.

Stefan