General ⇒ chapter heading position

[chao]

Hi,
I've got a question about positioning Chapter Heading.

I found a short script looks like this:

\documentclass[twoside,letterpaper,12pt]{report}

\makeatletter
\def\@makechapterhead#1{%
\vspace*{50\p@}%
{\parindent \z@ \centering
\normalfont
\ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne
\if@mainmatter
\huge\bfseries \@chapapp\space \thechapter
\par\nobreak
\vskip 20\p@
\fi
\fi
\interlinepenalty\@M
\Huge \bfseries #1\par\nobreak
\vskip 40\p@
}}
\def\@schapter#1{\if@twocolumn
\@topnewpage[\@makeschapterhead{#1}]%
\else
\@makeschapterhead{#1}%
\@afterheading
\fi}
\def\@makeschapterhead#1{%
\vspace*{50\p@}%
{\parindent \z@ \centering
\normalfont
\interlinepenalty\@M
\Huge \bfseries #1\par\nobreak
\vskip 40\p@
}}
\makeatother

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

However it works only for unnummbered chapter.
e.g. Introduction
I would like to have
e.g. chapter1
Introduction
shown in the middle of a page.

Thanks a lot

[localghost]

Omit this code and use the titlesec package. It lets you customize the headings of your document.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi chao,

welcome to this forum!
Those redefinitions work for \chapter with the book class without problem.
For using it with the report class I would delete two lines, the one containing \if@mainmatter and one of the following lines containing \fi.

Stefan

[chao]

your help is concise and sufficient.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi chao,

with the titlesec package mentioned by Thorsten it could be very simple. Here's the complete changed code with centered chapter titles:

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\documentclass[twoside,letterpaper,12pt]{report}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
  {\centering\normalfont\huge\bfseries}
  {\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}{20pt}{\Huge}

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

Stefan

[chao]

Thanks stephan!

where to find these infomations?

[gmedina]

Read the packages documentation. Usually, when the use of a package is suggested, a link (to the location of that package on CTAN) is provided (see the response by localghost above). There you can find information about the package and its documentation.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi chao,

you can find this information by reading the titlesec documentation. Thorsten already gave a link above, where you can find the link to that documentation.
I gave the small example above to demonstrate that the usage of titlesec may be simple, though in the documentation there may be much to read.

Stefan

[chao]

I've asked how to place a chapter title in the mid of a page.
a new problem following the original one

% place chapter headings in the middle of the page
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\centering\large\bfseries}
{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}{20pt}{\large\uppercase}

Now, how can I change the "chapter 1" into uppercase? I tried to find the infomation from titlesec.pdf provided by others but could not find proper place.

Also, if I want to change the ListOfFigures and others(ListOfTables...) into uppercase how to do that?

ListOfFigures.tex
\listoffigures
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Figures}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Chao,

both can be done by using \MakeUpercase (not \uppercase):

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\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\centering\large\bfseries}
{\MakeUppercase{\chaptertitlename}\ \thechapter}{20pt}{\large\MakeUppercase}

Stefan