[Tex/LaTex] Changing chapter titles in Masters-Doctoral-thesis template

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I'm using MastersDoctoralThesis template to write my thesis. By default it gives chapters as below:

1 Introduction

I want a title similar to below (center aligned, CAPITALIZED, and chapter number in roman numerals)

Chapter I

INTRODUCTION

Best Answer

If you do not have to use this template, do not use it. See https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Scientific_Reports

Do not make any changes to the class file. If you do, you must rename it.

Add the following three lines to the preamble to get what you want. There is no need to change the class file. The class was designed to be customizable to the end user. The option chapterinoneline is not default and needs to be commented out.

\renewcommand{\chapteralign}{\centering}
\renewcommand{\chapterfont}{\Huge\bfseries\MakeUppercase}
\renewcommand{\thechapter}{\Roman{chapter}}

and in the document body use

 \chapter{{Wombat}}

(note the extra craces).

Alternatively, one could use at a later point

\renewcommand{\thechapter}{\arabic{chapter}}
\renewcommand{\mdtChapapp}{}{}
\renewcommand{\chapteralign}{\raggedleft}
\renewcommand{\chapterfont}{\color{black}\huge}
\renewcommand{\chapterinbetweenskip}{}{\vspace*{0pt}}
\renewcommand{\chapterprefixfont}{\fontsize{56pt}{0pt}\selectfont\color{mdtRed}}

\chapter{Alpaca}

to get the following result:

Disclaimer: Only with the next update.

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[Tex/LaTex] Change the color of the chapter number (Oxford Thesis Template)

I don't know if you want to change grey to another colour or to black (which is a colour anyway), but adding this line to the preamble (and x11names to the document class):

\AtBeginDocument{\colorlet{chaptergrey}{IndianRed3}}

produces this chapter heading:

[Tex/LaTex] Making changes to the Cambridge University thesis template

The title page is configured in the thesis-info.tex file, it includes some comments describing how to make modifications. In order to address your first issue, you could replace lines 57-63 of thesis-info.tex with the following:

%% You can redefine the submission text:
% Default as per the University guidelines:
% ``This dissertation is submitted for the degree of''
\renewcommand{\submissiontext}{A Thesis submitted for the Degree of}

%% Full title of the Degree
\degreetitle{Doctor of Philosophy\\\emph{in the Faculty of Science}}

One solution for you second issue is to uncomment line 79 in the thesis.tex file in order to change the page style to PageStyleII. This enables roman numeral page numbers for the page between the table of contents and chapter 1. However, switching to PageStyleII also changes the overall style of the pages which may be undesirable.

The page styles in this template appear to be defined in PhDThesisPSnPDF.cls, which would need to be modified if you want to keep the original page style while also enabling roman number page numbers.

Edit: It sounds like you want to add an unnumbered chapter which is still included in the ToC (Table of Contents). I managed to achieve this by adding the following commands to the Cambridge template:

\chapter*{Summary}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Summary}

If you would prefer to make the summary into single page section instead of a separate chapter while still keeping the chapter-style ToC entry style, you can instead use this:

\newpage % Ensures summary starts on new page
\section*{Summary}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Summary}
\markboth{Summary}{} % Replace chapter header with "Summary"