[Tex/LaTex] Displaying author for each chapter in book

chapters

I am preparing a book in which each chapter is contributed by different people.I want to include their name after the chapter title.How to I do it.If I use \maketitle it is useing the title and author name for the book. Here is the MWE:

\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\author{S.Subham Soni}
%\title{A Sample Test} --> I don't want to use this
\begin{document}
%\maketitle
\chapter{This is a test}
\lipsum[4]
\end{document}

Best Answer

Why don't define a new command \chapterauthor

\makeatletter
\newcommand{\chapterauthor}[1]{%
  {\parindent0pt\vspace*{-25pt}%
  \linespread{1.1}\large\scshape#1%
  \par\nobreak\vspace*{35pt}}
  \@afterheading%
}
\makeatother

and use it in this way?

\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\makeatletter
\newcommand{\chapterauthor}[1]{%
  {\parindent0pt\vspace*{-25pt}%
  \linespread{1.1}\large\scshape#1%
  \par\nobreak\vspace*{35pt}}
  \@afterheading%
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\chapter{This is a test}
\chapterauthor{S.Subham Soni}

\lipsum[4]

\end{document}

enter image description here

EDIT

Just in case you want to add authors' info in the ToC, here is a different version.

Use the starred version of \chapterauthor (\chapterauthor*) in correspondence of starred chapters (\chapter*).

MWE

\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\usepackage{suffix}

\newcommand\chapterauthor[1]{\authortoc{#1}\printchapterauthor{#1}}
\WithSuffix\newcommand\chapterauthor*[1]{\printchapterauthor{#1}}

\makeatletter
\newcommand{\printchapterauthor}[1]{%
  {\parindent0pt\vspace*{-25pt}%
  \linespread{1.1}\large\scshape#1%
  \par\nobreak\vspace*{35pt}}
  \@afterheading%
}
\newcommand{\authortoc}[1]{%
  \addtocontents{toc}{\vskip-10pt}%
  \addtocontents{toc}{%
    \protect\contentsline{chapter}%
    {\hskip1.3em\mdseries\scshape\protect\scriptsize#1}{}{}}
  \addtocontents{toc}{\vskip5pt}%
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\chapter{1st chapter}
\chapterauthor{K.DINESH KUMAR \\ II Year B.Tech CSE}
\lipsum[1]

\section{A section}
\lipsum[1]

\chapter{2nd chapter}
\chapterauthor{S.Subham Soni}
\lipsum[1]

\section{A section}
\lipsum[1]

\chapter*{3rd chapter}
\chapterauthor*{Unknown}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}

Output (ToC):

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Possibly (I haven't tried it myself) you can use memoir and \chapterprecis:

From 6.5.8 of the memoir manual:

The command \chapterprecis prints its argument both at the point in the document where it is called, and also adds it to the .toc ﬁle. For example:
...
\chapter{}% first chapter
\chapterprecis{Our hero is introduced; family tree; early days.}
...
...
\chapterprecishere{<text>}
\chapterprecistoc{<text>}
The \chapterprecis command calls these two commands to print the <text> in the document (the \chapterprecishere command) and to put it into the ToC (the \chapterprecistoc command). These can be used individually if required.

It also has commands to alter the font and style used for \chapterprecis.

[Tex/LaTex] Vertical lines across page for each chapter

Here is a really old-school approach to reproduce the layout:

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\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{graphicx,lipsum,lmodern}% http://ctan.org/pkg/{graphicx,lipsum,lm}
\makeatletter
\def\@makechapterhead#1{%
  \vspace*{50\p@}%
  \noindent\hspace*{.1\linewidth}\smash{\rule[-2\textheight]{5pt}{3\textheight}}% Thick rule
  \hspace{.05\linewidth}\smash{\rule[-2\textheight]{2pt}{3\textheight}}% Thin rule
  \hspace{.1\linewidth}%
  {\parbox[t]{\dimexpr.75\linewidth-7pt}{\raggedright
    \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne
        \normalfont\bfseries\fontsize{30\p@}{36\p@}\selectfont
        \@chapapp\space \scalebox{2}{\thechapter}
        \par\nobreak
        \vskip 30\p@
    \fi
    \interlinepenalty\@M
    \fontsize{45\p@}{55\p@} \bfseries #1
    }
  }\thispagestyle{empty}\clearpage}
\def\@makeschapterhead#1{%
  \vspace*{50\p@}%
  \noindent\hspace*{.1\linewidth}\smash{\rule[-2\textheight]{5pt}{3\textheight}}% Thick rule
  \hspace{.05\linewidth}\smash{\rule[-2\textheight]{2pt}{3\textheight}}% Thin rule
  \hspace{.1\linewidth}%
  {\parbox[t]{\dimexpr.75\linewidth-7pt}{\raggedright
    \fontsize{45\p@}{55\p@} \bfseries #1
    }
  }\thispagestyle{empty}\clearpage}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\chapter{Name of the chapter}
\lipsum[1]
\chapter*{Name of the chapter}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}

The chapter title macros \@makechapterhead and \@makeschapterhead are redefined (respectively used to set the header of a numbered and unnumbered/starred chapter). lmodern provides scaled fonts that can be enlarged beyond \Huge (the default for chapter titles), together with some graphicx scaling of the chapter number... why not.

Page numbers are removed using \thispagestyle{empty} (default used to be plain).

Best Answer

EDIT

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