Text Formatting ⇒ Spelled-out chapter numbers

[alarswilson]

My thesis guidelines specify:

The words CHAPTER ONE are usually on a line by themselves (no following colon or period), with the title of the chapter double spaced beneath it. The title is centered, in all caps, and in bold face.

I attempted to do this manually, but LaTeX won't let me insert a line-break within a chapter title.

Any suggestions?

[localghost]

A first approach could look like the following sample code.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\parindent0em

\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\spelled}[1]{%
  \expandafter\@spelled\csname c@#1\endcsname
}
\newcommand*{\@spelled}[1]{%
  \ifcase#1\or{One}\or{Two}\or{Three}\or{Four}\or{Five}\or{Six}\or{Seven}\or{Eight}\or{Nine}\or{Ten}\else\@ctrerr\fi
}
\makeatother

% Setup for headings (titlesec)
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\normalfont\Large\filcenter\bfseries\scshape}
{\LARGE\MakeUppercase{\chaptertitlename~\spelled{chapter}}}
{1pc}
{\Huge}

\begin{document}
  \blinddocument
\end{document}

If you have more than ten chapters, adapt the newly defined \@spelled command. The system how to do that should be clear.

Take a look at the titlesec manual and those of the other used package to learn more.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[alarswilson]

Again, thank you.