chaptersformattingsectioning
I use report document class and the thing is that I would like to remove Chapter x phrase, add chapter number before chapter title and remove blank place between chapter name and top of page. For example normally it is like:
top of page
blank place
blank place
Chapter 1
Title of chapter
content
It would be better to be like this:
top of page
1. Title of chapter
content
How about just issuing
\vspace*{\fill}\par
\pagebreak
immediately after \chapter{...}
Or, in the preamble you could redefine \chapter with something like
\usepackage{letltxmacro}
\LetLtxMacro{\oldchapter}{\chapter}
\renewcommand{\chapter}[2][]{\oldchapter[#1]{#2}\vspace{\fill}\par\pagebreak}
The following code gave me this final output:
Is it what you were looking for?
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\lhead{}
\chead{TITLE OF THESIS}
\rhead{}
\lfoot{}
\cfoot{}
\rfoot{\thepage}
\newcommand{\mychapter}[1]{\newpage%
\topskip0pt%
\vspace*{\fill}%
\addtocounter{chapter}{1}%
\begin{center}%
\textbf{\Large{\color{red}{CHAPTER NO. \thechapter \\ \uppercase{#1}}}}%
\end{center}%
\vspace*{\fill}%
\newpage%
\textbf{\Large{\thechapter. #1}}%
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{#1}%
}
\begin{document}
\mychapter{Title of the first chapter}
\end{document}
Note: You can modify the sizefont or style to your will by modifying the adequate lines in the definition of the new command.
EDIT: The following has been added in order to fix some numbering problems occurring with the previous code. The disadvantage is that you need to load the oneside option of the book class in order to avoid to have the red chapter name on an odd page and the "regular" black chapter name on the following odd page (with the even page in between white). To finish the job you just need to check your headers and maybe redefine them using the tips in the documentation.
\documentclass[oneside]{book}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}[hang]{\Huge\bfseries}{\thechapter.\hspace{15pt}}{0pt}{\Huge\bfseries}
\newcommand{\mychapter}[1]{\newpage%
\topskip0pt%
\vspace*{\fill}%
\addtocounter{chapter}{1}%
\begin{center}%
\textbf{\Large{\color{red}{CHAPTER NO. \thechapter \\ \uppercase{#1}}}}%
\end{center}%
\vspace*{\fill}%
\addtocounter{chapter}{-1}
\newpage%
\chapter{#1}
}
\begin{document}
\mychapter{Title of the first chapter}
\end{document}
Best Answer
You can use the titlesec package; a little example: