Page Layout ⇒ Different Formats for numbered and unnumbered Chapters

[laurocesar]

Hi guys!

When using report class, how can I format \chapter* (starred) to be printed centralized and \chapter (normal one) to be printed flush left in the form "No. Chapter description", like "4 Trip over galaxy", I mean, without the string "Chapter 4 \\ Trip over galaxy" from report class.

Thanks a lot!

Lauro César

[cgnieder]

Hi Lauro and welcome to the LaTeX community!

The titlesec package allows you to format chapter and section titles as you like. If I remember correctly you can also achieve different formats for numbered and unnumbered titles.

Regards

[laurocesar]

Hi cgnieder!

Thanks for the answer and for the welcome.

In fact, I've tried titlesec, but I couldn't found a way to format \chapter* and \chapter differentially. But I may be wrong (I'm probably).

Another idea?

Thanks!

Lauro César

[cgnieder]

You must have missed section 3.8. Extended Settings of the titlesec manual. Here is a proof of concept that it is possible to define different formats for numbered and unnumbered titles using different sections formats (I used two formats from the manual for this):

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{name=\section}[block]
  {\normalfont\bfseries\filcenter}{\fbox{\itshape\thesection}}{1em}{}
\titleformat{name=\section,numberless}
  {\titlerule\vspace{.8ex}\normalfont\itshape}{}{0pt}{}

\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\section{foo}
\lipsum[1]
\section*{bar}
\lipsum[1]

\end{document}

Regards

[laurocesar]

Thanks a lot for your answer!