amsbookchaptersnamingtable of contents
If, in amsbook, I write something like
\chapter{My great chapter}
it appears in the text as
Chapter 1. My great chapter
I would like to make it appear simply as
1. My great chapter
Anyone have any suggestions? It would be great if it reflected the same change in the ToC too.
The macro responsible for inserting "Chapter" is \tocchapter; just redefine it to
\renewcommand\tocchapter[3]{%
\indentlabel{\@ifnotempty{#2}{\ignorespaces#2.\quad}}#3%
}
The original definition has \ignorespaces #1 #2.\quad; #1 and in the .toc file you find
\contentsline {chapter}{\tocchapter {Chapter}{1}{Something}}{2}
so you can see that Chapter is argument #1 to \tocchapter.
A good place for the redefinition is just above where you redefine \l@chapter.
Here's one possibility using the \Numberstring command from the fmtcount package to turn the number to its text string; the tocloft package was used to add the word "Chapter" before the chapter number in the ToC:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\usepackage{fmtcount}
\renewcommand\thechapter{\Numberstring{chapter}}
\setlength\cftchapnumwidth{3em}
\renewcommand\cftchappresnum{Chapter~}
\newlength\mylen
\settowidth\mylen{\bfseries\cftchappresnum\cftchapaftersnum} % extra space
\addtolength\cftchapnumwidth{\mylen}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter{Test Chapter}
\end{document}
An image of the ToC:
An image of the first page of the chapter:
Best Answer
One possibility is to redefine the command
\chaptername. Here is a minimal working example:For more advanced customization, you may also be interested in packages such as
titlesec. Note that there may also be customization possibilities built-in theamsbookclass that I am not aware of (for instancememoirprovides such abilities).EDIT: as noted in the comments, one should in fact be a little more careful because of the presence of an
\enspacein@makechapterheadin the classamsbook.cls. Perhaps the best option to redefine the@makechapterheadcommand as a whole is to useetoolbox, as egreg suggests: