Theses, Books, Title pages ⇒ Small capitals for Chapter titles, sections, subsection..

[janelle]

Hi everybody,

Here's my first question for the community, hope you can help.

Im using template master-doctoral-thesis for my msc thesis and im wondering how to change all titles (Chapters titles, Sections, Subsections, Bibliography, toc) to Small Capitals.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

[Johannes_B]

You can use package titlesec just like you would do with any other LaTeX-class.

[janelle]

thx. im still a beginner and am not quite sure how or where to implement that
i tried by including the following in the "main.tex" file's preamble part

1.
usepackage(titlesec)
\titleformat{\section}{\textsc}
\titleformat{\chapter}{\textsc}
...

but i get this error:
! Paragraph ended before \ttl@format@ii was complete.

2. then i tried
\titleformat*{\section}{\textsc}

which results in:
! Package titlesec Error: Entered in horizontal mode.
See the titlesec package documentation for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.

can you see what goes wrong here?

[Johannes_B]

Thinking about it more, you have two possibilities. Using package titlesec and define the headings by yourself entirely (destroys template defaults), or use package sectsty and just change the font. The design will be with changed to the sectsty defaults, so, default template design destroyed as well.

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\usepackage{titlesec}
\makeatletter
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]{\huge\bfseries\scshape}{\@chapapp~\thechapter}{1\baselineskip}{}
\titleformat{\section}{\large\bfseries\scshape}{\thesection}{1em}{}
\makeatother

Pay attention, titleformat has a few arguments than you tried to give.

Or use the following block to change the fonts.

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\let\chapterfont\relax
\usepackage{sectsty}
\allsectionsfont{\scshape}

[janelle]

that works!

minor detail
chapter and section names at the top of each page are still normal
would there be a fast method to change that font to smallcaps too?

[Johannes_B]

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\addtokomafont{pagehead}{\scshape}

[janelle]

i couldnt be more thankful

[Johannes_B]

Glad to be helpful.