Page Layout ⇒ How do I adjust the package quotchap?

[Medova]

I would like to make a slight adjustmest to the look of the quotchap by raising the chapter number/header on normal chapter pages. This is in general possible with the command:

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\renewcommand\chapterheadstartvskip{\vspace*{-5\baselineskip}}

However, this also raises the header on my table of content, bibliography etc., which I do not want to change.

Here is a MWE of the problem, consisting a master file and the preamble:

Master:

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\input{preamble}
\begin{document}
\selectlanguage{english}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\tableofcontents

\chapter{Introduction}
\textsl{Is this chapter, something very interesting is explained.}
\section{First section}
First section of Master's Thesis.

\bibliography{litteratur}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography}
\end{document}

Preamble:

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,twoside,openright,fleqn]{report}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{t1enc}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{left=4cm,top=3cm,right=3cm,bottom=3cm} 
\usepackage{psboxit}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\headheight=14pt
\fancyhf{} 
\fancyhead[LE]{\leftmark} 
\fancyhead[RO]{\rightmark}
\fancyfoot[RO,LE]{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{\thechapter\ #1}{}}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{\thesection\ #1}}
\fancypagestyle{plain}{
\fancyhf{}
\fancyfoot[RO,LE]{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
}
\usepackage[times]{quotchap} % Chapter package
\usepackage[numbers,sort&compress]{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{chicago}

[localghost]

[...] Here is a MWE of the problem, consisting a master file and the preamble [...]

This is not a MWE [1]. Correct your sample code where necessary.

[1] View topic: Avoidable mistakes


Best regards
Thorsten

[Medova]

Is this a MWE? Or would anyone just reply to anything else than the fact that I don't know what a MWE is - would be a great help.

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,twoside,openright,fleqn]{report}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{geometry} 
\usepackage{psboxit}
\usepackage[times]{quotchap} % Chapter package
\usepackage[numbers,sort&compress]{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{chicago}

\begin{document}
\selectlanguage{english}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\tableofcontents

\chapter{Introduction}
\textsl{Is this chapter, something very interesting is explained.}
\section{First section}
First section of Master's Thesis.

\bibliography{litteratur}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography}
\end{document}

[localghost]

Is this a MWE? Or would anyone just reply to anything else than the fact that I don't know what a MWE is - would be a great help.[...]

You are not new to the forum so in the meantime you should have learned what a minimal working example (MWE) is and how to build it. And your question shows me that you didn't follow the link in my previous reply. A MWE is essential to find out what might be going wrong. It is in your own interest that you follow given links. This concerns especially the link to the forum topic about avoidable mistakes. Most people here are not motivated to tinker with some code snippets which furthermore contain commands to access files which are not present here (i. e. the bibliography database). In this case your bibliography has nothing to do with the problem you described. So get rid of things that are not problem related and provide minimal code. You can find more instructions when following the given links. Nobody refuses to help you. But you have to make this process as easy as possible.

[Medova]

The bib actually has something to do with my problem - without it and without the table of contents you can easily think that you have solved the problem (as I thought), but you have moved the header of the bib and toc as well.
I left it there intentionally, and I think it should stay there.

[Medova]

I would like to make a slight adjustmest to the look of the quotchap by raising the chapter number/header on normal chapter pages. This is in general possible with the command:

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\renewcommand\chapterheadstartvskip{\vspace*{-5\baselineskip}}

However, this also raises the header on my table of content, bibliography etc., which I do not want to change.
Another possibility is the command:

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\setlength\headsep{-2cm}

in the definition of \fancypagestyle{plain}, the problem of course is the same, since toc and bib are plain-styles. So HOW do I do that?

code:

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,twoside,openright,fleqn]{report}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{geometry} 
\usepackage{psboxit}
\usepackage[times]{quotchap} % Chapter package
\usepackage[numbers,sort&compress]{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{chicago}

\begin{document}
\selectlanguage{english}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\tableofcontents

\chapter{Introduction}
\textsl{Is this chapter, something very interesting is explained.}
\section{First section}
First section of Master's Thesis.

\bibliography{litteratur}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography}
\end{document}

[localghost]

Double posts are not tolerated (see Board Rules). So the topics have been merged.

You example still lacks a sample bibliography database. Finally I managed to reduce the problem to a MWE. The lines below show how to adjust the bibliography heading (maybe needs accommodation).

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\begin{filecontents*}{sample.bib}
@BOOK{lamport94,
  author={Leslie Lamport},
  title={\LaTeX\ -- A Document Preparation System},
  note={User's Guide and Reference Manual},
  year={1994},
  publisher={Addison-Wesley},
  edition={Second}
}\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[includeheadfoot,margin=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[numbers,sort&compress]{natbib}
\usepackage[times]{quotchap}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
  \tableofcontents
  \renewcommand{\chapterheadstartvskip}{\vspace*{-5\baselineskip}}

  \blinddocument
  \renewcommand{\chapterheadstartvskip}{\vspace*{2.3\baselineskip}}

  \nocite{*}
  \bibliographystyle{chicago}
  \bibliography{sample}
\end{document}

Just for your notification. The psboxit package was made for LaTeX2.09 long time ago. Therefore it should not be used any more.

[Medova]

Thx a lot...