General ⇒ Chapter headings without the word chapter!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi gigi,

welcome to the board!
If you want your own style for chapter headings, sections etc., I recommend to use the titlesec package. There's some documentation to read, but it's worth a read.

You could use fancyhdr to customize your page headings, it's recommendable, without that package you may use \markboth and \markright.

Stefan

[gigi]

Hi Stefan,

Thank you very much for the reply and the warm welcome
I read the manual and spent the whole day trying to improve my title, but I've still problem I cannot manage to solve. In my code, I put the following lines to define my fonts :

\usepackage{fontspec,xltxtra,xunicode}
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
\setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Hoefler Text}
\setmonofont[Scale=MatchLowercase]{Hoefler Text}
\setsansfont[Scale=MatchLowercase,Mapping=tex-text]{Hoefler Text-Italic} %Zapfino

But my title isn't in the Hoefler Italic font and I don't understand why. I saw that when using the \titleformat, you can play on the format. Therefore, I tried to put {\fontfamily{hoefler}}, or try to find the code of the Hoefler Text-Italic to use the command \fontencoding{}, but I didn't find it. The code defining my title (not completely optimized yet) is :

\renewcommand{\chaptername}{}
\renewcommand{\thechapter}{}
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{%
\markboth{#1}{}}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\bfseries\Huge\itshape}
{\filleft\MakeUppercase{\chaptertitlename} \Huge\thechapter}
{4ex}
{\titlerule
\vspace{2ex}%
\font\x="Hoefler Text-Italic"
\fontsize{30}{10}
{\x\addfontfeature{Color=B4B4B4, Scale=2, Alternate=1}1}\kern-2ex
{\x\addfontfeature{Color=404457, Scale=8, Alternate=1}1}\kern-1ex
\vspace{8ex}%
\filright
}
[
\vspace{2ex}%
\titlerule]

I removed explicitely the numbers from my chapter titles, because I wanted to make them somehow different. But the second problem is that I would like that for the sections, subsections,... the number contains the number of the chapter : for example Section 2.1. Otherwise, all the sections start with a 1 and this is not clear any more which section we are talking about. I managed to reput the number of the section using :

\renewcommand{\thesection}{\arabic{section}}

And for the chapter, I tried this, but I doesn't seem to be the way to do it :

\renewcommand{\thesection}{\arabic{chapter}}

If you have any clue about these questions, it would be of great help.
Thanks,
Gigi

[wyssel]

Hi,

I've read some of the help here, but nothing has worked for me. All I want is to change the way my chapter headings look, from:

Chapter 1

'Chapter title'

to:

1 'Chapter title'

I don't want anything else to change; just to get rid of the word chapter and put the actual title of the chapter next to the number instead of on a new line. There must be a simple way to do this, right?

Thanks

[localghost]

The simplest way to do that is to use another document class with built-in features. There are the classes from the KOMA Script bundle or the very flexible memoir class. But with these classes there might come other changes (i. e. type area). Alternatively you can try your luck with the titlesec package.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[wyssel]

Hey thanks! I got my nice chapter headings now. And it was really easy, just as I thought

In case anyone is trying to do the same here's what I did:

First I installed the titlesec package
\usepackage{titlesec}

and then added this one line to the preamble and presto! Beauty! Poetry! Etc...

\titleformat{\chapter}[hang]{\bf\huge}{\thechapter}{2pc}{}

Sigh... now to actually write some content under my nice headings....

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi wyssel,

very good that your headings are perfect now!
Just one remark: the \bf macro is obsolete, better use LaTeX2e font commands.

Stefan

[Yoni]

Hey thanks! I got my nice chapter headings now. And it was really easy, just as I thought

In case anyone is trying to do the same here's what I did:

First I installed the titlesec package
\usepackage{titlesec}

and then added this one line to the preamble and presto! Beauty! Poetry! Etc...

\titleformat{\chapter}[hang]{\bf\huge}{\thechapter}{2pc}{}

Sigh... now to actually write some content under my nice headings....

Hi wyssel
This was exactly what i have been looking for.Thanks for sharing. I only have one little problem with it now, the table of contents command (\tableofcontents) could not be run. It only runs when i remove the \titleformat...
any idea

[Yoni]

Got it right with document class scrbook. It does not require
\titleformat{\chapter}[hang]{\bf\huge}{\thechapter}{2pc}{} Good one.

[Nihisil]

Got it right with document class scrbook. It does not require
\titleformat{\chapter}[hang]{\bf\huge}{\thechapter}{2pc}{} Good one.

It make:
1 Chapter First
2 Chapter Second

How make:
1. Chapter First
2. Chapter Second
?

[localghost]

Got it right with document class scrbook. It does not require
\titleformat{\chapter}[hang]{\bf\huge}{\thechapter}{2pc}{} Good one.

It make:
1 Chapter First
2 Chapter Second

How make:
1. Chapter First
2. Chapter Second
?

Just add a dot at the appropriate place.

Code: Select all

\documentclass[11pt,english]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[raggedright]{titlesec}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\titleformat{\chapter}[hang]{\bfseries\huge}{\thechapter.}{2pc}{}
\titlelabel{\thetitle.\quad}   % For consistency in all headings

\begin{document}
  \blinddocument
\end{document}

For details refer to the titlesec manual.

And next time please open a new topic instead of answering to one that is more than one year old. Your questions then will be recognized much faster as such.


Thorsten