Text Formatting ⇒ Chapter Title

[s.david]

Hello,

How can I writte the chapter number and chapter title in the same line, and if the title is too long, the second line begins from the begining of the line, not under the first word of the title. For example, in this code:

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,openany]{memoir}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{titletoc}
\begin{document}
\chapter{This is a regular test chapter title in the same line of the chapter number}
\end{document}

Thanks in advance

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You will find possibilities in the titlesec documentation, for instance the block shape:

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\titleformat{\chapter}[block]
  {\normalfont\huge\bfseries}{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}{20pt}{\Huge}

Stefan

[s.david]

You will find possibilities in the titlesec documentation, for instance the block shape:

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\titleformat{\chapter}[block]
  {\normalfont\huge\bfseries}{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}{20pt}{\Huge}

Stefan

Thank you Stefan, you are really helping me.

Best regards

[localghost]

Just for the record. The memoir class has built-in mechanisms to translate that.

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,openany,english]{memoir}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\makechapterstyle{custom}{%
  \renewcommand*{\printchapternum}{\chapnumfont \thechapter\quad}
  \renewcommand*{\afterchapternum}{}
}
\chapterstyle{custom}

\begin{document}
  \chapter{This is a regular test chapter title in the same line of the chapter number}
    \blindtext
\end{document}

More details can be found in the manual (Section 6.5.1 - Defining chapter styles, p. 81ff).


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[surrix]

Hi,

I'm a total LaTeX noob and I've been searching forever for how to do this. Is there a simple way of doing this without resorting to a completely different doctype? I'm trying to make the chapter format be like this:

# Chaptertitle

For example,

1 Introduction

as it is in the ToC. I've already removed the word "Chapter" by using \renewcommand{\chaptername}{}, but now I just need to get the number and title on the same line. Can anyone help spell out how to do this simply, ideally without using other packages (surely there must be something built in for such a simple formatting task)?

Thanks

[Juanjo]

Please, see this old thread about the same question.

[surrix]

Please, see this old thread about the same question.

Thanks!

For anyone who stumbles upon this thread again in the future, the code I used for my report class document was this in the preamble:

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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

[Nanayaw]

Can you help me on why it is not working for me. It keeps highlighting the \chapter{company...} please help

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Nanayaw,

welcome to the forum!

I suggest that you would open a new topic and explain your problem in detail. I doubt that the people, who discussed here 4 yours ago, 2009, read your follow-up question, and that many other readers might see this topic of 2009 again. Just to improve your chance to get a solution.

Stefan