General ⇒ Increase Size of Chapter Numbers and Make Title Uppercase

[AleCes]

Hello everybody,

I need to increase the size of chapter numbers without altering the size of the title. Also, I'd like doing away with the label "chapter" preceding numbers.

Minimal example:

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\documentclass[10pt,a5paper,openany]{book}
\usepackage[top=1.5cm,headsep=4pt,outer=2cm,inner=1cm,nofoot,bottom=1.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
\fancyhf{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}}
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{%
\markboth{\MakeUppercase{%
\thechapter.%
\ #1}}{}}
\fancyhead[RO]{\rightmark}
\fancyhead[LE]{\leftmark}
\fancyhead[RE]{\thepage}
\fancyhead[LO]{\thepage}
\usepackage[center,uppercase,tiny]{titlesec}
\titlespacing{\chapter}{0pt}{*0}{*1.5}

\begin{document}
    \chapter{Introduction}
    \blindtext
    \chapter{Conclusion}
    \blindtext
\end{document}

[AleCes]

I've almost solved it by devising this code:

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\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\centering\bfseries\large}
{\Huge\thechapter}
{0pt}
{}
[]

However, if I go for fine customization with \titleformat, the generic options I used before, that is [center,uppercase,tiny] are discarded, and if add MakeUppercase to {\centering\bfseries\large} I get error messages... why Is there a workaround? If so, I'm done with this issue!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Instead of telling "when I do this and that" and mentioning error message without really telling such a message, you could post example code which shows that error. It's just quite hard to solve otherwise. Making it easier for the reader leads to the solution more quickly.

Stefan

[AleCes]

Sorry, here's the message:

{\centering\bfseries\large\MakeUppercase}

! Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line 105.
<inserted text>
\fi
<*> "La Rivoluzione Francese a Santo Domingo.tex"

[cgnieder]

I've almost solved it by devising this code:

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\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\centering\bfseries\large}
{\Huge\thechapter}
{0pt}
{}
[]

However, if I go for fine customization with \titleformat, the generic options I used before, that is [center,uppercase,tiny] are discarded, and if add MakeUppercase to {\centering\bfseries\large} I get error messages... why Is there a workaround? If so, I'm done with this issue!

Use this:

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\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
    {\centering\bfseries\large}
    {\Huge\thechapter}
    {0pt}
    {\MakeUppercase}
    []

The last mandatory argument puts code bofore the title body. Quoting titlesec's documentation:

<before-code> is code preceding the title body. The very last command can take an argument

This is important: \MakeUppercase has a mandatory argument:

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\MakeUppercase{<text to be uppercased>}

Regards

[AleCes]

Thanks! You've been so helpful to me!

[nzbone]

Hi everyone,

Sorry for hijacking but I am having similar issues with chapter headings and please forgive me I only started with latex yesterday!

I want to get a title similar to the screenshot attached. I can't seem to get the following to work
1) Very large font size for the number and a smaller one for the actual chapter title
2) Colour of both the chapter title and number
3) Helvetica font

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\usepackage{titlesec}
\titlespacing{\chapter}{0pt}{*25}{*5}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
    {\filleft\bfseries\Huge}
    {\Huge\thechapter}{10pt}{\sc}
    []

Thanks so much!!