General ⇒ Formatting for Chapter Number

[amradly]

Hey,

I have a problem in a document. I write a master thesis with the book class and I want to make the chapter format as

Chapter (1) instead Chapter 1
Chapter (2) instead Chapter 2
Chapter (3) instead Chapter 3
...


Thanx

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi amradly,

welcome to the board!

It can easily be redefined. Just put into your preamble:

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\renewcommand*{\thechapter}{(\arabic{chapter})}

Stefan

[amradly]

Hey,

thanks Stefan... it is working well!

But I have another problem, the chapter becomes Chapter (1) but the section becomes
(1).1
(1).2
(1).3
...

Thanks in advance

[Stefan Kottwitz]

That's consistent, because a section 1 in chapter (1) may be called (1).1. But no problem, it can be changed in a similar way:

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\renewcommand*{\thesection}{\arabic{chapter}.\arabic{section}}

Stefan

[amradly]

Thanks Stevan for your effort,

I want also to remove the vertical space between chapter title and the "chapter" keyword so I want the chapter will be

Chapter (1) | instead Chapter (1)
Introduction |
Introduction

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Regarding spacing, font, and formatting of headings in general, have a look at the titlesec package. The manual is some stuff to read, because of the many features, but an easy start is given by the examples for standard classes. They are a good start for customization.

Stefan

[localghost]

If it is only about getting rid of that vertical space without any other modifications to the other heading levels, you can patch a helper macro for the \chapter command by the etoolbox package.

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\documentclass[11pt]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{etoolbox}

\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\@makechapterhead}{\vspace 20\p@}{}{}{}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
  \chapter{Foo}
\end{document}

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[amradly]

@Stefan_K ,
thanks, I download the manual of titlesec package and I found the "titlespacing"
\titlespacing*{<command>}{<left>}{<beforesep>}{<aftersep>}[<right>]

but I don't need it , I want to remove vertical space between chapter title and the "chapter" keyword.

@localghost,
thanks, the figure you attached is really what I want , but the code is n't working well I think the titlesec package will be good but I don't know how....

Regards,

[localghost]

[…] the figure you attached is really what I want , but the code is n't working well I think the titlesec package will be good but I don't know how. […]

The words "code isn't working" are not a good description of the problem. Make sure that you have a TeX system that is up to date.

Add the \listfiles command as very first line to my code example, run the compiler and search the log file (*.log) for the list of used files (quite at the end). This is what I get.

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 *File List*
    book.cls    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
    bk11.clo    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
 fontenc.sty
   t1enc.def    2005/09/27 v1.99g Standard LaTeX file
etoolbox.sty    2011/01/03 v2.1 e-TeX tools for LaTeX
    etex.sty    1998/03/26 v2.0 eTeX basic definition package (PEB)
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