Page Layout ⇒ Custom Chapter Headings without Chapter Prefix

[budrik]

Hi,

I'm currently writing my PhD thesis and try to produce a nice chapter style. Does anybody know how to produce the attached chapter style?

An example of what I'm after is attached.


Regards
budrik

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Budric,

welcome to the board!

Have a look at the titlesec package, I guess you can use this, it's pretty flexible. The fncychap package provides some other example styles.

Stefan

[budrik]

Hi,
thanks for the answer . I have this so far:

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\documentclass[runningheads,a4paper,10pt]{book}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{titlesec}

\titleformat{\chapter}{\sffamily\bfseries\Huge}{}{0pt}{}
\titleformat{\section}[leftmargin]{\sffamily\bfseries\large}{}{0pt}{}
\titlespacing*{\section}{2.5cm}{*2.5}{0.5cm}

\begin{document}
\chapter{1 Introduction}
\section{Content}
\lipsum[1]
\section{Outline}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}

But it is not looking that good as the example!

regards

[budrik]

Hi,

can anybody help me to get the "1" from "1 Introduction" into the left margin, such that it is aligned with "Content" and "Outline"?

Thanks for any help
budrik

[localghost]

Hi
can anybody help me to get the "1" from "1 Introduction" into the left margin, such that it is aligned with "Content" and "Outline"?[…]

A strict alignment with the section titles is not possible because you have chosen to center them. Nevertheless you can try something like this.

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\documentclass[11pt]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{titlesec}

\titleformat{\chapter}{\sffamily\bfseries\Huge}{\llap{\makebox[2em][r]{\thechapter}\hspace{1em}}}{0pt}{}
\titleformat{\section}[leftmargin]{\filcenter\sffamily\bfseries\large}{}{0pt}{}
\titlespacing*{\section}{2.5cm}{*2.5}{0.5cm}

\begin{document}
  \chapter{Introduction}
    \section{Content}
      \lipsum[1]

    \section{Outline}
      \lipsum[2]
\end{document}

For an exact alignment you should flush the section titles to the right by replacing \filcenter with \filleft. This might require a subsequent correction of the additional horizontal space in the chapter heading.

And please check your examples for functionality next time. The \raggedcenter command is unknown and makes the compilation of your example impossible. That could be a reason why you have gotten no answer.


Thorsten

[budrik]

Hi Thorsten,

Thanks for the code! That's exactly what I want. And yes, I will fix the example code.

Regards Patrik