Page Layout ⇒ Formatting of chapter titles

[Seanshine]

Dear Readers,

I've got a questions with regards to the MastersDoctoralThesis.cls file. Namely, I would like the prefix 'Chapter X' removed and only show the chapter name instead. For example, 'Chapter 1; Introduction' -> '1 Introduction'.

Thanks in advance.

PS. I've tried to use,

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\addchap{Introduction}

, however it messes up the chapter numbering.

[Johannes_B]

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% Masters/Doctoral Thesis 
% LaTeX Template
% Version 2.5 (27/8/17)
%
% This template was downloaded from:
% http://www.LaTeXTemplates.com
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% Version 2.x major modifications by:
% Vel (vel@latextemplates.com)
%
% This template is based on a template by:
% Steve Gunn (http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/srg/softwaretools/document/templates/)
% Sunil Patel (http://www.sunilpatel.co.uk/thesis-template/)
%
% Template license:
% CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/)
%
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\documentclass[
english, % ngerman for German
chapterinoneline, % Uncomment to place the chapter title next to the number on one line
]{MastersDoctoralThesis} % The class file specifying the document structure
\usepackage{blindtext}
\renewcommand{\chaptermarkformat}{\thechapter\space}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Wombat}
\blindtext[10]
\end{document}

Package scrlayer-scrpage is used to define the headers and footers.

[Seanshine]

@Johannes_B Hero!

One more question: where would one place \renewcommand{\chaptermarkformat}{\thechapter\space}? And what is its use?

[Johannes_B]

In the document preamble as shown.

It's use? It formats the chapter mark to what you want.

[Seanshine]

Ah. Great.

I was in doubt whether to change the .cls file or the main.tex whenever one wants to make any changes. But from my understanding one has to make adaptions only in the main.tex, correct?

[Johannes_B]

Yes, this is correct. There is no need to change the class file at all. This is by design in LaTeX.

[Seanshine]

Finally I understand. So when I want to change the header to '1 Introduction Author p. X', what code would one insert and where within the main.tex?

[Johannes_B]

\ihead{\headmark\space Author p. X} in the preamble.

All customization is done in the preamble.

You need to read an introduction to learn LaTeX which is needed to use the template.

[Seanshine]

'The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX', I will go through that step by step.

Thanks for the support.