Page Layout ⇒ Space after headings

[W.Newby]

The format of my thesis has to meet certain prescribed requirements. To meet these requirements I have (regrettably) had to adjust some of the default standard LaTeX settings.

In particular, I have adjusted the format of the "\chapter" headings so that they display rather like "\section" headings. For this I used the following code (which I found online):

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\makeatletter
\renewcommand*\@makechapterhead[1]{
  {\parindent \z@ \raggedright \normalfont
    \LARGE\bfseries
    \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne
         \thechapter\space
    \fi
    #1\par\nobreak
    \vskip 20\p@
  }}
\makeatother

\chaptertitlefont{\LARGE}

However, this does not apply to the 'intrinsic' headings built into the commands for "Contents", "List of Figures", "List of Tables", or "Bibliography".

Does anybody know how to change these 'intrinsic' headings?

[frabjous]

It would help greatly to know what document class you're using, and anything else relevant. A compiliable minimal working example always facilitates things.

Personally, unless I had no choice, I wouldn't redefine the document class internals in this way, but use a package like titlesec, which makes it easy to customize section/chapter titles, including the "built in" ones.

[gmedina]

Hi W.Newby,

I agree with frabjous's suggestion regarding titlesec. However, if you want to avoid using that package, you will have to redefine also the \makeschapterhead command (that controls the way in which the starred version \chapter* typesets titles) in a similar fashion to the one used for \makechapterhead.