General ⇒ Size of headings "Bibliography", "LoF", "LoT"

[dn_befunk]

Hi everyone,

I am writing my master thesis in book class.

My chapter titles are "Large", but I cannot manage to get the automatically-generated "Bibliography", "List of Tables", and "List of Figures" headings in "Large" size as well.

As for the bibliography, I'm using BibTex, and including it in the backmatter.

As for the LoT and LoF, they're appendices (\appendix). I managed to change their name

\chapter*{\Large{Appendix C: List of Companies}}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Appendix C: List of Companies}

, not their size.

Thx in advance!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

My chapter titles are "Large", but I cannot manage to get the automatically-generated "Bibliography", "List of Tables", and "List of Figures" headings in "Large" size as well.

it depends on how you're doing the chapter size. If you do it in a consistent way, such as redefining \chapter or using the titlesec package, the automatically generated heading would have the same size, since they use \chapter*

However, if you do it like here

I managed to change their name

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\chapter*{\Large{Appendix C: List of Companies}}

i.e. manually inserting the \Large command into each \chapter argument, it would be the wrong approach, also not respected by \chapter calls done by packages or the class, not by you.

Just general remarks, since you did not show a code example yet (regarding your use of \chapter) but wrote a general question.

Stefan

[dn_befunk]

Hi Stefan,

thanks for your reply and sorry about the trivialness of the question, I'm a LaTex beginner.

However, I actually I copy&pasted the wrong bit.

That's how I'm dealing with chapters

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

That's how I'm dealing with the List of Figures and the List of Tables

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\appendix
\renewcommand\listfigurename{Appendix A: List of Figures}
\listoffigures
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Appendix A: List of Figures}

\renewcommand\listtablename{Appendix B: List of Tables}
\listoftables
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Appendix B: List of Tables}

whereas my bibliography is

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\backmatter
\bibliography{Bibliography}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography}

I'm fine with how they appear in the toc, I just want the headings "Bibliography", "List of Tables" and "List of Figures" to be the same size as the other chapters' headings.

Thx again

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

the question is not very trivial, I think it's not easy to customize chapter headings without reading something specifically about that.

It's just important to see how you're doing it now. I see you redefined \@makechapterhead, that's ok. If \chapter* is used, such as the bibliography does, \@makeschapterhead is called instead, you should redefine this as well.

Stefan

[dn_befunk]

Thanks Stefan,

I solved the problem by adding

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c

in the preamble and

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\ChTitleVar{\Large\bf}

before \begin{document}.

It seems to work.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

\bf is an obsolete LaTeX 2.09 command, I recommend using \bfseries instead, see LaTeX Font Selection.

Stefan