General ⇒ Chapter authorship subtitles

[Fibonacci]

I, along with other people, am working on a book where each chapter (and sometimes each section) is written by a different author/set of authors. Still they should be treated as chapters, so I'm not sure combine.cls would work for me.

What's the best way to add authorship subtitles to each chapter/section title?

Thanks in advance.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Fibonacci,

a solution with memoir is described here: Author(s) per chapter - short story collection.
Further there's this earlier question on latex-community.org with several suggestions: An author and a title on chapter page.

Stefan

[Fibonacci]

a solution with memoir is described here: Author(s) per chapter - short story collection.

That looks great, but I'd rather not change the book class. Amongst other things because of the layout of the title and index pages.

Further there's this earlier question on latex-community.org with several suggestions: An author and a title on chapter page.

Doesn't look so good – the code I copied verbatim makes the chapter typeface look very different from the rest.
I suppose it can be tweaked so chapter titles look the same as they do by default, but unfortunately I don't know how.

[Fibonacci]

Bump.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Fibonacci,

instead of just bumping up without additional information it would be better to add some information at this occasion. A minimal working example would be great. It allows people to see what you are doing, which classes, packages and options you are using. Otherwise it's a quite theoretical question, answers might be similar then, if coming at all.

Stefan

[Fibonacci]

Or rather, a minimal non-working example, as I haven't got working code yet.

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\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\title{Some title}
\author{The Does}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\tableofcontents
\chapter{Some chapter}
\chapterprecis{John Doe}
\lipsum
\chapter{Another chapter}
\chapterprecis{Jane Doe}
\lipsum
\end{document}

This shows the authors' names both on each chapter and on the table of contents (although it only works for chapters – it would be great if it could be done for sections too). But I dislike the layout of the title page: the title, author, and date should be bigger, and the table of contents should be on a separate page – in short, they should look like the result of this code:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\title{Some title}
\author{The Does}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\tableofcontents
\chapter{Some chapter}
\lipsum
\chapter{Another chapter}
\lipsum
\end{document}

Unfortunately there is no way on that code to display the authors' names as I wanted.

There is also this possibility:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}{\normalfont\Large\scshape}{\thechapter}{1em}{}
\title{Some title}
\author{The Does}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\tableofcontents
\chapter*{Some chapter \\ \normalfont\normalsize\textit{--- John Doe ---}}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\normalfont\scshape{Some chapter} \\ \normalfont\textit{John Doe}}
\lipsum
\chapter*{Another chapter \\ \normalfont\normalsize\textit{--- Jane Doe ---}}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\normalfont\scshape{Another chapter} \\ \normalfont\textit{Jane Doe}}
\lipsum
\end{document}

This probably can be tweaked to work with sections, which is good. But on the other hand it's terrible since the chapters are not numbered on the table of contents, and the chapter titles' format (i.e. font, size, and so on), both on the TOC and on each actual chapter, differs too much from the default. I want them to look as in the previous examples.

[Fibonacci]

Is there any more information I should add?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I'll have a look tomorrow when there's time, perhaps somebody else does in the meantime...


Stefan

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I think this could be done using the titlesec package. It provides sophisticated ways for customizing titles and offers a comprehensive documentation. The standard classes examples in the appendix are a good start, however thoroughly reading the documentation is very recommendable here.

Stefan