[Tex/LaTex] How to change the Chapter Num font when using fncychap

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I'm using fncychap to style my chapter titles :

\usepackage[Sonny]{fncychap}
%-----------
\ChNameVar{\Huge\fontfamily{put}\selectfont\color{black}}
\ChNumVar{\Huge\fontfamily{pzc}\selectfont\color{blue}}
\ChTitleVar{\Huge\fontfamily{phv}\selectfont\scshape\color{green}}

and this is what I get as a result :
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I didn't understand how the ChNameVar, ChNumVar and ChTitleVar work, and my question is : How can I increase the size of the chapter num. " 1 " in this case, to make it bigger …

EDIT : Also as you can see the chapter title is not green what I'm doing wrong in this case ?

Best Answer

That number is set by \ChNumVar and you use Zapf Chancery. Comment that line or choose one of the other font families:

\documentclass[french]{book}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{xcolor}

\usepackage[Sonny]{fncychap}
%-----------
\ChNameVar{\Huge\fontfamily{put}\selectfont\color{black}}%  Utopia
\ChNumVar{\Huge\fontfamily{pzc}\selectfont\color{blue}}% Zapf
\ChTitleVar{\Huge\fontfamily{phv}\selectfont\scshape\color{green}}% Helvetica

\begin{document}

\chapter {Contexte}\noindent\Large
\fontfamily{put}\selectfont ABCDEFGHIabcdefghj0123456\\
\fontfamily{pzc}\selectfont ABCDEFGHIabcdefghj0123456\\
\fontfamily{phv}\selectfont ABCDEFGHIabcdefghj0123456\\

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Getting chapter title bigger

Without a minimal working example (MWE), it is difficult to give a precise answer, but here is an example of how to use titlesec for this purpose:

\documentclass{book}

\usepackage{titlesec,lipsum}

\titleformat{\chapter}[display]{\normalfont\huge\bfseries}{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}{20pt}{\Huge}

\begin{document}

\chapter{Chapter Title}

\lipsum[1]

\end{document}

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The command you are interested in is \titleformat and it has the following syntax:

\titleformat{⟨command⟩}[⟨shape⟩]{⟨format⟩}{⟨label⟩}{⟨sep⟩}{⟨before-code⟩}[⟨after-code⟩]

where the role of each argument is documented on page 4 of the titlesec manual (accessible by typing texdoc titlesec in a shell or here). Basically, you should put in <format> the formatting commands that should apply to both the label and chapter name, <label> is just how you want the label to appear (leaving blank would remove "Chapter 1" for instance), while <before-code> concerns the formatting commands that appear just before the chapter name. In my example, both the label and the chapter name are \bfseries, while the label is \huge and the chapter name is \Huge.

Note: you could also have a look at this question.

[Tex/LaTex] How to change the font when using fncychap

The exact configuration depends on the fncychap style you’re using, but in general, there are a few macros for adapting the style, as described in section 2.1 of the fncychap documentation. The ones for changing the font etc. are \ChNameVar{stuff}, \ChNumVar{stuff} and \ChTitleVar{stuff}. Here’s an example for the style Sonny using pdfLaTeX:

\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[Sonny]{fncychap}
  % defaults:
  %\ChNameVar{\Large\sf}
  %\ChNumVar{\Huge}
  %\ChTitleVar{\Large\sf}
  % custom:
  \ChNameVar{\Large\fontfamily{put}\selectfont\color{blue}}
  \ChNumVar{\Huge\fontfamily{pzc}\selectfont\color{red}}
  \ChTitleVar{\Large\fontfamily{phv}\selectfont\scshape\color{green}}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Hello World!}
Foo bar baz
\end{document}

output

For some more details on how to change the font and also how to do it with XeLaTeX, LuaLaTeX, or ConTeXt, see How do I use a particular font for a small section of text in my document?.

Also note that in some fncychap styles, variables influence the following variables; e.g. in my example, “Hello World!” and the rules would be red if I hadn’t specified their color. I’m not sure if that’s a bug or intended behavior.

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