[Tex/LaTex] Description of a chapter in a page

chaptersdescriptionsectioning

I would like to decorate my headlines (section, subsection, etc.) by adding foreach a chapter a description area.

This picture is a screenshot document where the headline has the formating, layout and color I want. enter image description here

How I can achieve this? Any help would be much appreciated.

Best Answer

Have a look at fncychap package.

You can build your own chapter-styles:

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{type1cm}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{lettrine}


\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
  {\normalfont\Large\sffamily}
  {\flushright\fontsize{90}{0}\textbf{\textcolor{black!20}{\thechapter}}}{10pt}
  {\flushright\fontsize{30}{0}\textbf{#1}\vskip80pt\rule{\textwidth}{2pt}}
\titlespacing*{\chapter}
  {0pt}{-40pt}{0pt}

\begin{document}
\chapter{Introduction}

\lettrine[lines=4]{\color{black!20}S} tart of the chapter. \lipsum[1]
\end{document}

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] Beamer infolines outer theme with miniframe bullets only for the current section

This is quite a hackish solution: It starts with the miniframes outer theme and patches the internal beamer commands in order to remove the other sections from the headline:

\documentclass{beamer}

% "Beamer infolines outer theme with miniframe bullets only for the current section"
% (http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/45152/3323)
\useoutertheme[subsection=false]{miniframes}
\setbeamertemplate{mini frame in other section}{}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\let\beamer@section@set@min@width=\relax
\patchcmd{\insertnavigation}{\hskip-1.875ex plus-1fill}{}{}{}
\patchcmd{\sectionentry}{\hskip1.875ex plus 1fill}{}{}{}
\patchcmd{\sectionentry}{\hyperlink{Navigation#3}{{\usebeamertemplate{section in head/foot shaded}}}}{}{}{}
\patchcmd{\slideentry}{\usebeamertemplate{mini frame in other subsection}}{\usebeamertemplate{mini frame in other subsection of current section}}{}{}
\patchcmd{\slideentry}{\usebeamertemplate{mini frame in other subsection}}{\usebeamertemplate{mini frame in other section}}{}{}
\patchcmd{\slideentry}{\usebeamertemplate{mini frame in other subsection of current section}}{\usebeamertemplate{mini frame in other subsection}}{}{}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\section{Section 1}
\subsection{Subsection 1}
\frame{\frametitle{Frame 1}}
\frame{\frametitle{Frame 2}}
\frame{\frametitle{Frame 3}}
\subsection{Subsection 2}
\frame{\frametitle{Frame 1}}
\frame{\frametitle{Frame 2}}
\frame{\frametitle{Frame 3}}
\frame{\frametitle{Frame 4}}
\section{Section 2}
\subsection{Subsection 1}
\frame{\frametitle{Frame 1}}
\frame{\frametitle{Frame 2}}
\frame{\frametitle{Frame 3}}
\frame{\frametitle{Frame 4}}
\subsection{Subsection 2}
\frame{\frametitle{Frame 1}}
\frame{\frametitle{Frame 2}}
\frame{\frametitle{Frame 3}}
\frame{\frametitle{Frame 4}}
\frame{\frametitle{Frame 5}}
\end{document}

Example headline:

example headline: section 2, subsection 1, frame 3

(If you want to have all mini frames in one line instead of using a single line per subsection, you can use \documentclass[compress]{beamer} as usual.)

Explanation of the code:

We use the outer theme miniframes and remove all the mini frames that do not belong to the current section:

\useoutertheme[subsection=false]{miniframes}
\setbeamertemplate{mini frame in other section}{}

Now, etoolbox is used to remove some code from the beamer macros responsible for generating the navigation bar:

Remove the space between the sections:

\let\beamer@section@set@min@width=\relax
\patchcmd{\insertnavigation}{\hskip-1.875ex plus-1fill}{}{}{}
\patchcmd{\sectionentry}{\hskip1.875ex plus 1fill}{}{}{}

Do not display sections other than the current section at all:

\patchcmd{\sectionentry}{\hyperlink{Navigation#3}{{\usebeamertemplate{section in head/foot shaded}}}}{}{}{}

Fix an inconsistency in the current beamer version: currently, the template mini frame in other subsection is used for both mini frames in the current section and other sections, where the latter case should use mini frame in other section:

\patchcmd{\slideentry}{\usebeamertemplate{mini frame in other subsection}}{\usebeamertemplate{mini frame in other subsection of current section}}{}{}
\patchcmd{\slideentry}{\usebeamertemplate{mini frame in other subsection}}{\usebeamertemplate{mini frame in other section}}{}{}
\patchcmd{\slideentry}{\usebeamertemplate{mini frame in other subsection of current section}}{\usebeamertemplate{mini frame in other subsection}}{}{}

[Tex/LaTex] Giving headlines a background color spanning across the entire typearea

Here my second try. It is using the same Idea as Sharpie, but doesn't need tikz.

\documentclass{scrartcl}

\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\setkomafont{section}{\mysection}
\newcommand{\mysection}[1]{%
    \Large\sf\bf%
    \setlength{\fboxsep}{0cm}%already boxed
    \colorbox{orange!80}{%
        \begin{minipage}{\linewidth}%
            \vspace*{2pt}%Space before
            #1
            \vspace*{2pt}%Space after
        \end{minipage}%
    }}

    \begin{document}

        \section{Example section}
        \lipsum[1]

        \section*{A very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very long section}
        \lipsum[1]
\end{document}

result is: result feel free to adopt for subsection etc ;)