General ⇒ Thesis Section/Chapter headings

[Skyflash]

Hi Guys,

I'm currently writing my thesis in LaTeX and I've run into some dificulties.

At the moment the start of each new section begins with "1 Introduction" or "2 Materials & Methods" in bold left justified, very boring! I'd like to make the difference between the sections more clear by either giving each section it's own title page (but this resets the page numbering!) or by hiding the actual section title "1 Introduction" so that it still appears in the TOC and then replacing it with a larger bold title in the middle of the page with something like "Chapter 1 : Introduction". I'd like to keep the numbering of my subsections the same i.e. "1.1 Antibiotics" "1.1.1 Antibiotic resistance".

Can anyone provide me with any suggestions of how I could do the above or any other ideas? Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Marc

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Marc,

have a look at the titlesec package, it provides commands for customization of sectioning titles. Using that it becomes simple to create for instance centered or colored titles with different spacing.

Stefan