Page Layout ⇒ Chapter Format

[jpehs]

I'm publishing a book with a publisher that requires this simple formatting for chapter titles:

• Chapter number: 14pt, flush left on text line 2
• 0.5pt vertical rule x 2 picas centred between chapter number and chapter title in both directions
• Chapter title: 14/19pt, indented 3 picas on text line 2

An example chapter title, provided by the publisher, looks like this:

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I'm trying to reproduce this with the titlesec package with the following code:

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\usepackage[rigidchapters]{titlesec}
	
\titleformat{\chapter}[block]
{\normalfont\LARGE}
{\makebox[3pc][l]{\LARGE\thechapter}}
{0pt}
{\LARGE}
\titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{0pt}{82pt}

This handles the font size correctly, and the vertical spacing between the chapter title and the chapter text (the spacing before the title should be on line 2 of the text but a spacing of 0pt seems to produce this: I don't know why). But I've got two problems:

1. I don't know how to create a vertical line, 0.5pt wide and 2pc high
2. I don't know how to centre that line between the RH side of the chapter number and the LH side of the chapter title.

I'd be very grateful if anyone could help.

[localghost]

[…] But I've got two problems:

1. I don't know how to create a vertical line, 0.5pt wide and 2pc high
2. I don't know how to centre that line between the RH side of the chapter number and the LH side of the chapter title.

[…]

Both issues are solved with the below code. Note that the vertical line will always be centered between the number and the heading of the chapter. This effect becomes clear for two-digit chapter numbers.

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\documentclass[12pt,english]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[rigidchapters]{titlesec}
\usepackage{blindtext}
   
\titleformat{\chapter}
{\normalfont\LARGE}
{\makebox[3pc][l]{\LARGE\thechapter\hfil\rule[-6pt]{0.5pt}{2pc}}}
{0pt}
{\LARGE}
\titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{0pt}{82pt}

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

The packages babel (with its global language option) and blindtext are not part of the solution. They have only been used to create dummy text.


Thorsten

[jpehs]

Thanks, Thorsten: that's absolutely perfect and does precisely what I want. Very kind of you.