Page Layout ⇒ How to delete "Chapter [number]"

[ffarr]

Hello,
I'd like to create chapters without showing the initial sentence "Chapter 1" ecc both in the page and in the header.
How can I do it?

Many thanks

[localghost]

There's also \chapter* as sectioning command. Note that there will be no entry in the Table of Contents (ToC).


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[ffarr]

There's also \chapter* as sectioning command. Note that there will be no entry in the Table of Contents (ToC).


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

I see. It works, but the title of the chapter doesn't appear in the header, wich I'd like to..
To make my issu clear:

\chapter{The beginning}

prints out:

Chapter 1
The beginning

in the page and: CHAPTER 1. THE BEGINNING, in the header..

Is there any way to maintain "The beginning" in the header, deleating "Chapter 1"?

By the way: is it possible to avoid capital letters in the header?

Oh, thank you for the greetings

[localghost]

[…] It works, but the title of the chapter doesn't appear in the header, wich I'd like to. […]

Oh, a little misunderstanding. Now I see. Also no chapter number? That would be quite confusing and I think you at least keep this.

A quick solution would be to migrate the document to a class of the KOMA Script bundle and use its \addchap command. Perhaps memoir has similar features

[…] By the way: is it possible to avoid capital letters in the header? […]

For customized headers you can take a look at fancyhdr or titlesec. The latter one would also allow a full customization of chapter styles. But for more we first should clarify my above question.

[ffarr]

Ok I'll have a look. My opera is not a regular book. It's divided in 3 huge chapters, so I don't need chapter numbers, but I do need chapter titles in the header, so you always know where you are.

So, it has to be like this:

Chapter title [in the page]

and

Chapter title [in the header]

Just plain, like this, without "Chapter" and chapter numbers.
Thanks for the help, I'll read through the links you advice me.

(by the way: I'm quite new at LaTex, so if you can try to make things as clear as possible )

[localghost]

One last question I forgot. What about the ToC entries? Are the chapters going to appear with or without chapter number in the Table of Contents? And is the document single- or double-sided? (OK, I admit these are two questions).

[ffarr]

One last question I forgot. What about the ToC entries? Are the chapters going to appear with or without chapter number in the Table of Contents? And is the document single- or double-sided? (OK, I admit these are two questions).

I don't mind the number of the chapters in the table of contents.
I'm using the default {book} class right now. I will change the layout (dimension of the page, padding etc) later. So yes, it's 2 sided, I'm not going to change that, because it has to be like that.

[localghost]

I don't mind the number of the chapters in the table of contents. […]

That makes things a little bit easier.

[…] I'm using the default {book} class right now. I will change the layout (dimension of the page, padding etc) later. So yes, it's 2 sided, I'm not going to change that, because it has to be like that.

Ok, that is enough information for an appropriate document setup.

Code: Select all

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twoside,english]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[%
  headheight=14pt,
  includehead,
  nofoot
]{geometry}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[raggedright,pagestyles]{titlesec}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\newpagestyle{main}{%
  \sethead[\thepage][][\chaptertitle]{\chaptertitle}{}{\thepage}
  \headrule
}
\pagestyle{main}

\titleformat{\chapter}{\normalfont\huge\bfseries}{}{0pt}{\Huge}

\begin{document}
  \tableofcontents
	
  \blinddocument
\end{document}

Neglect the formatting of the sections since you are only interested in the chapters. Note that the blindtext package is only for creating the dummy document thus not part of solution.

[ffarr]

This is simply perfect. Thank you SO much!