chapterssectioning
I was looking for style inspiration for my thesis and I came across this chapter style:
As far as I am concerned memoir class is capable of this kind of typography like specified in Bringhurst chapter style in memoir, but I am trying to produce it using the book class. I would be grateful if someone in here can share his/her knowledge about the code used to produce this style.
You can use \chapter*{Your chapter title} to get an unnumbered chapter, but it will also not include that chapter in the ToC. So you can then say \addtocontents{toc}{Your chapter title} to add the chapter title manually.
Here is a third suggestion, this time using xcoffins. It has an easy and intuitive way of handling boxes that need to be joined, attached, shifted... one should note, though, that xcoffins' syntax might still change in the future.
The basic idea is simple: define coffins (i.e. boxes)
\NewCoffin\testA
\NewCoffin\testB
set them to contain what you like
\SetHorizontalCoffin\testA{\huge A}
\SetHorizontalCoffin\testB{bbb}
rotate, scale or resize them, join (bounding box is extended to contain both, \JoinCoffins) or attach (bounding box is not extended, \JoinCoffins*) them using so-called handles or poles and maybe used some horizontal or vertical offset
% join bottom center of \testA with top center of \testB
% and shift \testB 1em down:
\JoinCoffins\testA[hc,b]\testB[hb,t](0pt,-1em)
and finally typeset them:
\TypesetCoffin\testA
This is all very well explained in the documentation.
I use this idea below using three coffins: \main is used as a shell that will be filled with contents and typeset in the end. \titleline is filled with a horizontal ruled and joined with \main, \chapternumber is filled with the scaled and coloured chapter number for numbered chapters or is left empty else. It is then attached to main and shifted into the margin and (what seemed an appropriate amount) down:
\documentclass[b5paper]{memoir}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
% not then font used by Bringhurst, but anyway:
\usepackage{libertine}
% we want to letterspace uppercased words and those in small caps, so:
\usepackage{microtype}
% the chapter style:
\usepackage{xcoffins,xcolor}
\NewCoffin\main
\NewCoffin\titleline
\NewCoffin\chapternumber
\makechapterstyle{Bringhurst}{%
\renewcommand*\chapterheadstart{}
\renewcommand*\printchaptername{}
\renewcommand*\chapternamenum{}
\renewcommand*\afterchapternum{}
% numbered chapters:
\renewcommand*\printchapternum{%
\SetHorizontalCoffin\chapternumber{%
\textcolor{black!10}{\thechapter}%
}%
\ScaleCoffin\chapternumber{8}{8}%
}
% unnumbered chapters:
\renewcommand*\printchapternonum{\SetHorizontalCoffin\chapternumber{}}
\renewcommand*\printchaptertitle[1]{%
\memRTLraggedright\normalfont\large\MakeUppercase{\textls[75]{##1}}}
\renewcommand*\afterchaptertitle{%
\vskip.5\onelineskip
\SetHorizontalCoffin\titleline{\color{black!50}\rule{\linewidth}{1.5pt}}%
\JoinCoffins\main\titleline
\JoinCoffins*\main\chapternumber(\textwidth+\marginparsep,-4\baselineskip)%
\TypesetCoffin\main
\vskip\onelineskip
}
}
\chapterstyle{Bringhurst}
% sections and subsections:
\setsecnumformat{\normalfont\csname the#1\endcsname\quad}
% the section style:
\newcommand\uppercasehead[1]{%
\noindent\normalfont\scshape\MakeLowercase{\textls[50]{#1}}}
\setsecindent{0pt}
\setsecheadstyle{\uppercasehead}
% the subsection style:
\newcommand\itshapehead[1]{\normalfont\itshape#1}
\setsubsecheadstyle{\itshapehead}
\setsecnumdepth{subsection}
% the subsubsection style:
\setsubsubsecheadstyle{\itshapehead}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\chapter{The Grand Design}
\section{First Principles}
\subsection{Typography exists to honor content}
\lipsum
\end{document}
Best Answer
Here's some possibility using the
titlesecpackage and a font admitting large sizes; adjust the settings according to your needs:An image for an unnumbered (starred) chapter:
An image for a numbered chapter: