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I know that designing fancy things under latex can sometimes be very difficult. I've designed the following model under powerpoint in 5 minutes, and now I would like to achieve this with latex (I have to use the book class for my document, but I can use all existing package).
So here is the challenge:
How to do the same thing for my latex document?
It is a good practice to show that you have done your own part to solve your problem before trying to ask. That way, you will appreciate more what is happening in the solution that you are provided.
I would have to admit thought that this figure requires a lot if you are just beginning in LaTeX. The usual book class would have sufficed for many beginners like me.
I hope this answer will help you put up your own MWE. Then we will see from there. Be patient since what you are asking for is not trivial. There are some considerations here.
If memoir is an option, then I advise you to read: Mini table of contents inside TikZ node on chapter start page
If you are using others (may not work for all, I haven't tried), then you have to use some titlesec magic.
You can combine use titlesec and use the tikz technique used in How to get a colored box as the header? and perhaps some textpos solution.
I have taken the following tikz code from 1.
\begin{tikzpicture}[overlay, remember picture]
\draw let \p1 = (current page.west), \p2 = (current page.east) in
node[minimum width=\x2-\x1, minimum height=2cm, draw, rectangle, fill=blue!20, anchor=north west, align=left, text width=\x2-\x1] at ($(current page.north west)$) {\Large\bfseries \quad #1};
\end{tikzpicture}
But I would trim it down to something that you will need for your background like so:
\begin{tikzpicture}[overlay, remember picture]
\path let \p1 = (current page.west), \p2 = (current page.east) in
node[minimum width=\x2-\x1, minimum height=2cm, rectangle, fill=cyan, anchor=north west, align=left, text width=\x2-\x1] at ($(current page.north west)$) {};
\end{tikzpicture}
You will need the cyan-like color at the bottom of the page so we will further modify it like this:
\begin{tikzpicture}[overlay, remember picture]
\path let \p1 = (current page.west), \p2 = (current page.east) in
node[minimum width=\x2-\x1, minimum height=2.5in, rectangle, fill=cyan, anchor=north west, align=left, text width=\x2-\x1] at ($(current page.north west)$) {};
\path let \p1 = (current page.west), \p2 = (current page.east) in
node[minimum width=\x2-\x1, minimum height=1in, rectangle, fill=cyan!50, anchor=north west, align=left, text width=\x2-\x1] at ($(current page.south west)$) {};
\end{tikzpicture}
Then you could use this in combination with titlesec to have something in my preamble like
\documentclass[10pt]{book}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]{\normalsize}{
\begin{tikzpicture}[overlay, remember picture]
\path let \p1 = (current page.west), \p2 = (current page.east) in
node[minimum width=\x2-\x1, minimum height=5cm, rectangle, fill=cyan, anchor=north west, align=left, text width=\x2-\x1] at ($(current page.north west)$) {};
\path let \p1 = (current page.west), \p2 = (current page.east) in
node[minimum width=\x2-\x1, minimum height=0.8in, rectangle, fill=cyan!50, anchor=south west, align=left, text width=\x2-\x1] at ($(current page.south west)$) {};
\end{tikzpicture}
}{-1.75in}{}[\vspace*{1in}]
\begin{document}
\chapter{Background}
\end{document}
You can see the specifications for the \titleformat{<>}[<>]{<>}{<>}{<>}{<>}[<>] starting from page 3 of the titlesec manual.
The Chapter title looks small
And we want to remove the page number at the bottom in the chapter page. So we can also put \pagestyle{empty} somewhere. We can change the format as follows:
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]{\Huge\bfseries\sffamily\color{white}}{% Changed \normalfont
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{tikzpicture}[overlay, remember picture]
\path let \p1 = (current page.west), \p2 = (current page.east) in
node[minimum width=\x2-\x1, minimum height=5cm, rectangle, fill=cyan, anchor=north west, align=left, text width=\x2-\x1] at ($(current page.north west)$) {};
\path let \p1 = (current page.west), \p2 = (current page.east) in
node[minimum width=\x2-\x1, minimum height=0.8in, rectangle, fill=cyan!50, anchor=south west, align=left, text width=\x2-\x1] at ($(current page.south west)$) {};
\end{tikzpicture}
}{-1.5in}{}[\vspace*{1in}]
Some Final Touches
And we then finally added \chaptername and the \thechapter so that the chapter and the chapter number will appear. You can use textpos so that you can manually position them.
Finally, an MWE that you can work on
It is a terrible hack, but it works for me in many instances. Here is the code:
\documentclass[10pt]{book}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\usepackage{textpos}
\usepackage{calc}
\DeclareFixedFont{\chapternumberfont}{T1}{ppl}{}{}{1.5in}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]{\Huge\bfseries\sffamily\color{white}}{
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{tikzpicture}[overlay, remember picture]
\path let \p1 = (current page.west), \p2 = (current page.east) in
node[minimum width=\x2-\x1, minimum height=5cm, rectangle, fill=cyan, anchor=north west, align=left, text width=\x2-\x1] at ($(current page.north west)$) {
\begin{textblock*}{5in}(\dimexpr\x2-4.5in,\dimexpr0.25\headheight-1in)
\tikz \node [white,text width=2in, align=right, font=\sffamily] {{\normalsize DIGITAL MEDIA PRIMER}\\[12pt] \raisebox{50pt}{{\large \chaptertitlename}} \raisebox{-12pt}{\chapternumberfont \thechapter}};
\end{textblock*}
};
\path let \p1 = (current page.west), \p2 = (current page.east) in
node[minimum width=\x2-\x1, minimum height=0.8in, rectangle, fill=cyan!50, anchor=south west, align=left, text width=\x2-\x1] at ($(current page.south west)$) {};
\end{tikzpicture}
}{-1.75in}{}[\vspace*{1in}]
\begin{document}
\chapter{Background}
\end{document}
If you have some more time, you can combine the procedure I have outline here with the answer of Peter Grill in Using fancyhdr to create an image based header and footer
The komafont settings for chapter, section, etc. contain only the font size argument. You need to change the underlying formatting element disposition as well (also available as sectioning). This setting normally contains \normalcolor\sffamily\bfseries here we change it to \normalcolor\rmfamily:
\setkomafont{disposition}{\normalcolor\rmfamily}
There is also an option for small headings.
\documentclass[headings=small]{scrbook}
Best Answer
Here's one possibility:
The formatting for the chapter headings was produced using the
titlesecandTikZpackages.The partial ToCs (with the decorative rules) were obtained using the
titletocpackage. Simply calling\DoPToCafter\chapter{...}produces the partial ToC and its rules.The
epigraphpackage was used for the epigraphs.