Page Layout ⇒ Modify Bibliography Title

[Xabier]

Hello everyone,

I am writing my PhD thesis and I am dealing with some problems with the bibliography title style. I have redefined the heading title of ToC, LoF and LoT as:

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\makeatletter
\def\tableofcontents{%
\newpage
\thispagestyle{plain}
\vspace*{24.5pt}
\rule{\textwidth}{0.4pt}
\begin{flushright}
\vspace*{15.6pt}
\bfseries\Huge Contents
\end{flushright}
\vspace*{-21.1pt}
\rule{\textwidth}{0.5mm}
%\vspace*{0.3in}
\@mkboth{Contents}{Contents}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[LO]{\textbf{\leftmark}}
\fancyhead[RE]{\textbf{\rightmark}}
\fancyfoot{} % clear all footer fields
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
\@starttoc{toc}
}
\makeatother

and I would like to have the same effect in the Bibliography heading. Has anyone some idea?

Thank you very much in advance!

Xabi

[localghost]

It would be helpful if you at least tell us the used document class. Should this weird redefinition affect chapter headings in general or only the mentioned lists?


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[Xabier]

Dear Thorsten,

I am using the report class. I am using this common code with the numbered chapters, similar to the ger style in the memoir class, with nice results:

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\newcommand{\bigrule}{\titlerule[0.5mm]}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display] % cambiamos el formato de los capítulos
{\bfseries\Huge} % por defecto se usarán caracteres de tamaño \Huge en negrita
{% contenido de la etiqueta
 \titlerule % línea horizontal
 \filleft % texto alineado a la derecha
 \Large\chaptertitlename\ % "Capítulo" o "Apéndice" en tamaño \Large en lugar de \Huge
 \Large\thechapter} % número de capítulo en tamaño \Large
{0mm} % espacio mínimo entre etiqueta y cuerpo
{\filleft} % texto del cuerpo alineado a la derecha
[\vspace{0.5mm} \bigrule]

But the problem comes with the no numbered "chapters", i.e., the toc, the lot, the lof and the bibliography. For the first three I have fixed the problem with the code of the first post, while for the bibliography I am working on it.

I hope this post has made the problem a little bit more clear.

Regards

[localghost]

With a small modification your new headings format also works for unnumbered chapters.

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\documentclass[11pt,twoside]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[pagestyles,raggedright]{titlesec}

\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\titlerule\bfseries\Huge}
{\filleft\Large\chaptertitlename\ \Large\thechapter}
{0mm}
{\filleft}
[\vspace{0.5mm}{\titlerule[0.5mm]}]

\newpagestyle{main}[\bfseries]{%
  \headrule
  \sethead[\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter.\quad\chaptertitle][][]{}{}{\thesection.\quad\sectiontitle}
  \setfoot[][\thepage][]{}{\thepage}{}
}
\pagestyle{main}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\listoftables

\chapter{Foo}

\begin{thebibliography}{9}
  \bibitem{key} Bibliography Entry  
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}

And if you are using the titlesec package, you actually don't need the fancyhdr package, because the first one also manages page styles (see code above).

[Xabier]

Thank you!

It works fine and it is pretty much closer to my initial idea! But I would like to insert in the unnumbered chapters a blank line of the same height as the line in which appears the text "Chapter 1" or "Appendix A" in the numbered ones.
Is it possible?

Thank you!

[localghost]

The only idea I have is to define some kind of switches to balance the missing content in the heading of unnumbered chapters.

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\documentclass[11pt,twoside]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[pagestyles,raggedright]{titlesec}

\newlength{\drop}
\newcommand{\numbered}{\setlength{\drop}{0pt}}
\newcommand{\unnumbered}{\setlength{\drop}{4.5ex}}

\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\titlerule\bfseries\Huge\vspace{\drop}}
{\filleft\Large\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}
{0mm}
{\filleft}
[\vspace{0.5mm}{\titlerule[0.5mm]}]

\newpagestyle{main}[\bfseries]{%
  \headrule
  \sethead[\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter.\quad\chaptertitle][][]{}{}{\thesection.\quad\sectiontitle}
  \setfoot[][\thepage][]{}{\thepage}{}
}
\pagestyle{main}

\begin{document}
  \unnumbered
  \tableofcontents
  \listoffigures
  \listoftables

  \numbered
  \chapter{Foo}

  \unnumbered
  \begin{thebibliography}{9}
    \bibitem{key} Bibliography Entry  
  \end{thebibliography}
\end{document}