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I am using the quotchap package to format chapter headings in a document. Is it possible to change the default font size for the chapter headings? For example, in the document.tex file at the above URL, what would need to be changed to make the title smaller?
I could of course just use
\chapter{\small Quote to be quoted}
but this messes up things like tables of contents and running headers, and the font size applies to those too.
Thanks for any help!
Redefine the \sectfont and \chapnumfont macros.
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{quotchap}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand*{\sectfont}{\bfseries}
\renewcommand*{\chapnumfont}{%
\usefont{T1}{\@defaultcnfont}{b}{n}\fontsize{120}{150}\selectfont% Default: 100/130
\color{chaptergrey}%
}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\chapter{foo}
Some text.
\end{document}
At least for the standard document classes (and also with the footmisc package loaded), footnote marks are typeset as superscripts which adjust to (and should be appropriate for) the font size in effect. If you nevertheless want somewhat smaller marks in chapter titles, you could add a \scalebox (from the graphicx package) to the definition of the kernel macro \@makefnmark and adjust the scale dependend on whether you're inside a chapter title or not.
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\newif\ifheading
\newcommand*{\fnmarkscale}{\ifheading 0.85 \else 1 \fi}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand*{\@makefnmark}
{\hbox{\@textsuperscript{\scalebox{\fnmarkscale}{\normalfont\@thefnmark}}}}
\makeatother
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}
{\LARGE\bfseries} % format of title
{\makebox[0.5in][l]{\thechapter}} % chapter number
{0em} % no additional space between number-box and title
{\headingtrue\LARGE}
\usepackage[symbol]{footmisc}
\textheight 180pt% just for the example
\begin{document}
\chapter[A chapter title]{A chapter title with a footnote\footnote{First footnote.}}
Some text with a footnote.\footnote{Second footnote.}
\end{document}
Best Answer
quotchapuses this command to specify the size of the chapter heading:In your document, after loading
quotchap, you could to the same but with another font size command, for instance:You have to write
\makeatletter...\makeatotheraround the command to be able to use the@sign in the command name.If you would like to adjust more than just the size:
quotchapcalls a macro\sectfontthat may be redefined to switch to a certain font family, shape or weight. For instance, regarding Levs answer concerning a condensed version, using condensed Helvetica could be done by\sectfontis used automatically for allquotchapchapter headings.