Text Formatting ⇒ Chapter heading format change

[nkal]

I am using document class report and wish to change the chapter heading to:
1. Introduction
instead of
Chapter 1
Introduction

which is the default option. In addition, I want to change a few other things about the heading:
1. the color of the heading which I did with
\chapter{\color{mycolor} Introduction}

2. fontsize change to \LARGE
3. underline the heading as shown above
4. boldface

Is there a quick way of doing all of these WITHOUT changing these characteristics in the table of contents?

Thank you in advance!
Nkal

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Nkal,

you could use titlesec. For example:

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\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}
  {\normalfont\LARGE\bfseries\color{darkblue}}{\thechapter.}{1em}{}

Perhaps think again about if you really need underlining. This is an old style of emphasizing, such as with typewriters.

Stefan

[nkal]

Stefan,

Thank you for your help. That works great! But I need the underlining. It is an odd format that we have in word to submit the reports. I am trying to write my report in latex because it is so much easier than word. But I am getting stuck in small things like these. Once I get the template fixed, the actual report should be much simpler!

Thank you again, if you can help me with the underlining, I can stop scratching my head!

What I have right now is this:
\documentclass[11pt]{report}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\definecolor{darkblue}{rgb}{0.089,0.21,0.363}
\titleformat{\chapter}
{\normalfont\LARGE\bfseries\color{darkblue}}{\thechapter.}{1em}{}

\newpage
\chapter{\color{darkblue}Introduction}

Coloring it blue inside \chapter makes it blue in the table of contents as well. Any fix for that?

Cheers,
Nkal

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Don't use \color within \chapter, do it within the \titleformat definition.

Regarding the underlining, here's a way:

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\titleformat{\chapter}
  {\normalfont\LARGE\bfseries\color{darkblue}}{\underline{\thechapter.\ }}{0pt}{\underline}

Stefan

[nkal]

Thank you, Stefan. That works great unless the letter has a tail in the bottom as in g, y, p, etc., then the line under the title is lower than the line under the number.

1. Introduction is fine but 4. Summary is not.

Cheers,
Nkal

[Stefan Kottwitz]

This can be fixed using ulem and \uline.

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\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}
  {\normalfont\LARGE\bfseries\color{darkblue}}{\uline{\thechapter.\ }}{0pt}{\uline}

Stefan

[nkal]

Thank you for all your help, Stefan! That works prefect!

Cheers,
Nkal