Document Classes ⇒ Editing scrreprt

[magical marshmallow]

Hey,

I am writing my thesis using the scrreprt document class, but I don't like the default chapter set up. So I want to define my own document class, essentiall the same as the scrreprt classe, but with a front chapter page.

The example I'd like to use is that in the image attached.

Can anyone point me to the relevant section in the scrrept .cls file that I should edit?

Furthermore, I have copied and renamed scrreprt.cls, but when I do this and use the new class, some text in the header becomes block capitals - No idea why, text of the files is identical

Cheers

[cgnieder]

Can anyone point me to the relevant section in the scrrept .cls file that I should edit?

You shouldn't edit the scrrprt.cls file at all but either use KOMA-Script's interface macros such as the chapter komafont and the macros \chapterformat, \chapterheadstartvskip and \chapterheadendvskip which are all descrobed in the KOMA-Script manual scrguien.

If you don't like those macros you can also use the titlesec package to format the headings (The package disables KOMA-Scripts options related with headings which is why some people don't recommend it.)

Regards

[magical marshmallow]

Hi Clemens,

I've had a go at using the titlesec package and I've come up with
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]{\normalfont\large\bfseries\filleft}{\Huge\thechapter}{15pt}{\Huge}

However, the number is still not what I would like, do you know how I might make it larger than the \Huge[\LaTeX] font size, so as to mirror that of the picture above?

[cgnieder]

You can use \scalebox (provided by the graphicx package) to scale things to arbitrary height:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
foo {\huge foo} \scalebox{3}{foo}
\end{document}

Maybe this helps.

Regards

[magical marshmallow]

Perftect - Thank you!