General ⇒ Chapters, headings, spellchecking, oh my...

[QuantumDeng]

Hi Stefan_K,

My document class is report. I am learning how to post a minimal example, but it might take a while.

The problem is: the pdf document shows

1 Introduction to superconductivity

However, what I want is:

Chapter 1 Introduction to superconductivity

And I also want to ask you another three questions:

1) You said by writing "hspace{1cm}", we can increase the space between "chapter" and "1", how can I increase the space between "1" and "introduction to superconductivity".

2) How to change "Chapter 1" into "TcSUH 1"?
3) How to make "Chapter 1" And " Introduction...." show in different lines:

Chapter 1
Introduction to superconductivity

Thanks.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Try this in your preamble, it's a redefinition of the headings made by report.cls:

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\makeatletter
\renewcommand*{\@makechapterhead}[1]{%
  %\vspace*{50\p@}%
  {\parindent \z@ \raggedright \normalfont
    \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne
        \huge\bfseries \@chapapp\space \thechapter
        \par\nobreak
        \vskip 20\p@
    \fi
    \interlinepenalty\@M
    \Huge \bfseries #1\par\nobreak
    \vskip 40\p@
  }}
\renewcommand*{\@makeschapterhead}[1]{%
  %\vspace*{50\p@}%
  {\parindent \z@ \raggedright
    \normalfont
    \interlinepenalty\@M
    \Huge \bfseries  #1\par\nobreak
    \vskip 40\p@
  }}
\makeatother

The space is reduced by commenting out those \vspace lines, everything else remains the same. You could remove the % sign and modify the \vspace argument like you wish.

Generally customization of the headings is much easier with the titlesec package.

Stefan

[QuantumDeng]

Thank you so much, Stefan! I finally solved the problem with your help,which I tried several hours by myself but failed.

I found out by changing "\vskip 40\p@" to vskip 20, I can reduce the space between the title of the chapter and the following text.

Can I ask you one more question? How can I reduce or control the space before and after the title of section and subsection?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You may adjust the lengths within these redefinitions, use it also between \makeatletter and \makeatother like the redefinitions above:

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\renewcommand\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}%
  {-3.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
  {2.3ex \@plus.2ex}%
  {\normalfont\Large\bfseries}}
\renewcommand\subsection{\@startsection{subsection}{2}{\z@}%
  {-3.25ex\@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
  {1.5ex \@plus .2ex}%
  {\normalfont\large\bfseries}}

An explanation of the arguments can be found here: Changing the Section Headings.

Stefan

[QuantumDeng]

Thank you so much!!!

[QuantumDeng]

Hey Stefan,

How can I make the title of chapters like "Chpater 1" and index of sections and subsections invisible?

Thanks a lot.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

What exactly do you mean? Do you wish to hide those headings

• in the table of contents
• or in the page headers
• or in the body text?

Stefan

[QuantumDeng]

In the body text,like
Chapter 1 Introduction ------change to------------ Introduction
1.1 Background ------change to------------ Background
1.1.1 Data analysis ------change to------------ Data analysis