Text Formatting ⇒ Chapter formatting, swap chapter number and text

[Joep]

Dear all,

I am using Kile in Linux with a PDFLaTeX compiler to make a report. I use an altered version of the documentclass "book". The alterations are not causing any problems and are not the reason for this post.

I was wondering if it is possible to interchange the chapter label and text within the book enviroment using the titlesec package.

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[noindentafter]{titlesec}

\def\titlefont{\rmfamily}
\def\titleshape{\scshape}
\def\titlestyle{\titlefont\titleshape\bfseries}

\definecolor{cyan}{cmyk}{1,0,0,0}
\colorlet{title}{cyan}

\titleformat{\chapter}
    {\flushright\titlestyle}
    {\fontsize{96pt}{96pt}\selectfont\bfseries\thechapter}
    {0pt}
    {\Huge\color{title}}

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

I have an attachment to exemplify what I want. The first shows how it is constructed now and I want to swap the label and text so that I get the lower image. Does anyone know how to do this with the titlesec package? Or is there an easy alternative to get this?

Thanks in advance for the help!

[rais]

I was wondering if it is possible to interchange the chapter label and text within the book enviroment using the titlesec package.

yes, with its explicit option, you can put something after the title.

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[noindentafter, explicit]{titlesec}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{showframe}

\colorlet{title}{cyan}

\def\titlefont{\rmfamily\Huge}
\def\titleshape{\scshape}
\def\titlestyle{\titlefont\titleshape\bfseries\raggedleft\color{title}}

\titleformat{\chapter}
    {\titlestyle}
    {}
    {0pt}
    {#1~\fontsize{96pt}{96pt}\selectfont\thechapter}
\titleformat{name=\chapter, numberless}
    {\titlestyle}
    {}
    {0pt}
    {#1}

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

BTW: Before you can play around with color, you need to load one of the color packages, where cyan is usually predefined.
The command form of the flushright environment is \raggedleft.

KR
Rainer