[Tex/LaTex] Customizing clean thesis

chapterscleanthesissectioningspacingtemplates

I am using the cleanthesis template. In this template, there is no paragraph by default.

As explained in Getting back the paragraph in cleanThesis?, the paragraph can be re-established by commenting out

\setlength{\parindent}{0em}

in the style class and

parskip=full

\documentclass[%
    paper=A4,                   % paper size --> A4 is default in Germany
    twoside=true,               % onesite or twoside printing
    openright,                  % doublepage cleaning ends up right side
    %parskip=full,              % spacing value / method for paragraphs
    chapterprefix=true,         % prefix for chapter marks
    11pt,                       % font size
    headings=normal,            % size of headings
    bibliography=totoc,         % include bib in toc
    listof=totoc,               % include listof entries in toc
    titlepage=on,               % own page for each title page
    captions=tableabove,        % display table captions above the float env
    draft=false,                % value for draft version
]{scrreprt}%

After changing this, the header of each chapter does look very crowded and the chapter title is not anymore on the bottom line. How can I keep the paragraph without destroying the header of each chapter?

If the answer is "Build your own thesis template", then I would like to know how I can reproduce the same header of each chapter in the memoir class.

Before re-establish paragraph:
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After adding paragraph:
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Without changing anything in cleanthesis.sty, add the following lines in your document, just before \begin{document}

\makeatletter
\pretocmd{\Hy@org@chapter}{\KOMAoptions{parskip=full}}{}{}
\pretocmd{\H@old@schapter}{\KOMAoptions{parskip=full}}{}{}
\pretocmd{\cleanchapterquote}{\KOMAoptions{parskip=full}}{}{}
\apptocmd{\Hy@org@chapter}{\KOMAoptions{parskip=false}}{}{}
\apptocmd{\H@old@schapter}{\KOMAoptions{parskip=false}}{}{}
\apptocmd{\cleanchapterquote}{\KOMAoptions{parskip=false}\vspace*{\baselineskip}}{}{}
\makeatother

Output:

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[Tex/LaTex] Customizing chapter’s title

This is an approach with »titlesec« where you perhaps need to incorporate your font settings.

\documentclass[11pt]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\titleformat{\chapter}[hang]
{\filcenter}
{\parbox{\widthof{\LARGE\sffamily\MakeUppercase{\chaptername}\enspace}}{%
  \filcenter\Large\sffamily\MakeUppercase{\chaptername}\enspace\\%
  \fontsize{48pt}{48pt}\selectfont\thechapter}\vrule width 2pt\quad%
}
{0pt}
{\Huge\bfseries\sffamily\parbox{\textwidth-\widthof{\LARGE\sffamily\MakeUppercase{\chaptername}\enspace}}{\filright #1}}

\begin{document}
  \chapter{A Very Long Title with Line Break}
    \lipsum[1]
\end{document}

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Addendum

Correspondingly to the comments this is an adapted (and otherwise slightly enhanced) version with the complete heading in the Helvetica font.

\documentclass[11pt]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\titleformat{\chapter}[hang]
{\filcenter}
{\parbox{\widthof{\LARGE\sffamily\MakeUppercase{\chaptername}}}{%
   \filcenter\Large\usefont{T1}{phv}{m}{n}\MakeUppercase{\chaptername}\\%
   \fontsize{48pt}{48pt}\selectfont\thechapter%
 }\enspace%
}
{0pt}
{\Huge\usefont{T1}{phv}{b}{n}\vrule width 1pt \enspace%
 \parbox{\textwidth-\widthof{\LARGE\sffamily\MakeUppercase{\chaptername}\enspace}}{\filright #1}%
}

\begin{document}
  \setcounter{chapter}{9}
  \chapter{Chapter Title}
    \lipsum[1]
\end{document}

If you need some kind of subtitle for the chapter as shon in your picture, you will have to use the optional argument.

  \chapter[Hello, ATL Server]{Hello, ATL Server\\[6pt] \large A Modern C++ Web Platform}

The inclined reader may judge if this is useful or not.

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And just for the case that you wonder what happens if the chapter title is (unnecessarily) long and goes over more than two lines, you can have a look at this.

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But that should really be avoided. As you can see, the vertical rule adapts to the content of the actual heading whereas chapter name and chapter number stay in their positions.

[Tex/LaTex] Insertion of blank pages in Thesis using document class Thesis

Thesis.cls uses vmargin to configure the page dimensions so you should use this interface if you wish to alter those dimensions. Otherwise, you are likely to get inconsistent and undesired results.

The command used by Thesis is:

\setmarginsrb {1.5in} % left margin
              {0.6in} % top margin
              {1in} % right margin
              {0.8in} % bottom margin
              {20pt} % head height
              {0.25in} % head sep
              {9pt} % foot height
              {0.3in} % foot sep

which obviously sets a wider left (inner) margin than right (outer) margin:

default margins

The idea here is that once an allowance has been made for binding, the amount of white space in the middle of a double-page spread should be equal to that at each outer edge.

That may be good typography but it has no place in the formatting guidelines of your institution. (Good typography is alien to most such guidelines.)

If you want inner and outer margins of 36mm, try this:

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{book}
\usepackage{vmargin}
\setmarginsrb {36mm} % left margin
              {0.6in} % top margin
              {36mm} % right margin
              {0.8in} % bottom margin
              {20pt} % head height
              {0.25in} % head sep
              {9pt} % foot height
              {0.3in} % foot sep
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\begin{document}
    \kant[1-15]
\end{document}

adjusted margins

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