Text Formatting ⇒ titlestyle of chapter

[allevo]

hello!!!
my problem is simple: i want change the style of the title of chapter
i want that the style is custom

how can I this?!?! how can i create a new style?!?!

I'm not inglese user.
I apologize for my English

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Allevo,

welcome to the board!
The titlesec package would be useful for you, see its documentation.

Here's an complex example using titlesec and TikZ: Fancy chapter headings with TikZ. But try the documentation and examples of titlesec first, that packages provides many good features.

Stefan

[allevo]

for create new style of chapter'heading i use \titleformat. is correct?!?!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Yes, that's correct. At the end of the documentation there are examples how the standard chapter/section styles could be created, that would be a good start.

Stefan

[allevo]

thanks!!!!
but the format, what is it?!?!
in the shape i can write \large etc... but in format?!?! and sep?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

That's described on page 3 and 4 of the documentation.

sep is a length, like 20pt. format contains formatting commands like \normalfont\huge\bfseries. shape ist a general option like hang, display or frame. The documentation contains more explanation and examples.

Stefan

[allevo]

thank

why this code create an error?!?!

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\titleformat{\chapter}{}
{frame}

this is the error:

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Runaway argument?
! Paragraph ended before \ttl@format@ii was complete.
<to be read again> 
                   \par 
l.40 
     
? ^C! Interruption.
l.40 
     

the line 40 is the line that follow "{frame}" and is empty

[Stefan Kottwitz]

\titleformat has more parameters, you have provided only 3 parameters. Here's a complete working example:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{book}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}[frame]{\normalfont\huge\bfseries}
{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}{20pt}{\Huge}
\begin{document}
\chapter{This is just a test chapter}
\end{document}

Stefan

[allevo]

ops excuse me...
i didn't see []

and how can i put a image?!?! for example a rectangle

[Stefan Kottwitz]

and how can i put a image?

Like at other places, you could use the command \includegraphics of the graphicx package. Or do you mean a symbol or a LaTeX-drawing instead of an external image?

Stefan