[Tex/LaTex] How to make nice chapter headings without titlesec

chapterskoma-scripttitlesec

I am looking for a way to make the first page for a chapter (a.k.a. the chapter heading) have approximately the upper half of the first page with a chapter number and title, and the text of the chapter start about half way down the page.

I have seen several options using titlesec such as:

\usepackage[ ]{titlesec}  %
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
  { \normalsize \huge  \color{black}}
  {\flushright \normalsize \color{RoyalRed} \MakeUppercase { \chaptertitlename } \hspace{1 ex} { \fontsize{60}{60}\selectfont \color{RoyalRed} \sffamily  \thechapter }} {10 pt}{\huge}

This works acceptably, producing something like (ignore the blue in this graphic):

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except I don't want to use titlesec because I get the following warning:

Class scrbook Warning: Usage of package `titlesec' together
(scrbook)              with a KOMA-Script class is not recommended.
(scrbook)              I'd suggest to use the package only
(scrbook)              if you really need it, because it breaks several
(scrbook)              KOMA-Script features, i.e., option `headings' and
(scrbook)              the extended optional argument of the section
(scrbook)              commands .
(scrbook)              Nevertheless, using requested
(scrbook)              package `titlesec' on input line 43.

I am relatively new to LaTex in general, but my sense is that the KOMA packages are well designed and well documented, so within the maelstrom of LaTex formatting capabilities, I would like to remain hitched to the using KOMA properly. So the question is, how can I get the same sort of chapter title effect without using titlesec?

Best Answer

I have no idea what the blue italics is meant to be or how that is supposed to get specified. Ignoring that, you can do something not a million miles from what you want:

\documentclass[headings=twolinechapter,chapterprefix=true]{scrbook}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\renewcommand*\chapterheadstartvskip{\vspace*{.3\textheight}}
\renewcommand*\chapterheadendvskip{\vspace*{.1\textheight}}
\renewcommand*{\chapterformat}{%
  \parbox{\textwidth}{\hfill\chapappifchapterprefix{\ }\thechapter\autodot\enskip}}
\addtokomafont{disposition}{\normalfont\bfseries}
\addtokomafont{chapterprefix}{\color{red}\mdseries\scshape}
\begin{document}

  \tableofcontents

  \chapter[My Chapter Title]{%
    My Chapter Title}

  \kant[1-10]

\end{document}

Kant with a fancy heading

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