[Tex/LaTex] Remove “Chapter” from a book text

chapters

I am finishing my master thesis and I need to remove the "Chapter" name from my chapter without removing the relative number of the chapter. (I am using the book class)

What I have now is:

Chapter 1.
Name of the chapter.

What I need is:

Name of the chapter.

I tried with titlesec, but the code I had changed the font as well.

Best Answer

Here's how you can do with titlesec (you may be wanting to add some \titlespacing instructions).

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{titlesec}

\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
  {\Huge\bfseries}
  {}
  {0pt}
  {\thechapter.\ }

\titleformat{name=\chapter,numberless}[display]
  {\Huge\bfseries}
  {}
  {0pt}
  {}

\begin{document}

\frontmatter

\tableofcontents

\chapter{Abstract}

abc

\mainmatter

\chapter{Title}

abc

\end{document}

Technical note: the image has been produced with the oneside option in order to limit the number of pages

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\makeatletter
\def\@makechapterhead#1{%
  \vspace*{50\p@}%
  {\parindent \z@ \raggedright \normalfont
    %\ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne
    %    \huge\bfseries \@chapapp\space \thechapter
    %    \par\nobreak
    %    \vskip 20\p@
    %\fi
    \interlinepenalty\@M
    \Huge \bfseries #1\par\nobreak
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  }}
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Here's a possible solution using the titlesec package; setting the value of \aftertitleunit to \baselineskip, you can then use *2 in the fourth mandatory argument of \titlespacing to obtain the desired vertical spacing between the title and the following text. You didn't provide information on the spacing before the title so I used 50pt, but you can change this value to the one that best suits your needs. To maintain consistency between the numbered and unnumbered chapters I used two \titleformat commands with similar settings: one for the numbered chapters and another one, using the numberless key, for the unnumbered ones:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{titlesec}

\setlength\aftertitleunit{\baselineskip}

\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
  {\normalfont\huge\bfseries}{}{0pt}{\Huge}
\titleformat{name=\chapter,numberless}[display]
  {\normalfont\huge\bfseries}{}{0pt}{\Huge}
\titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{50pt}{*2}

\begin{document}

\chapter{Test Numbered chapter}
\chapter*{Test Unumbered chapter}

\end{document}

Taking into account the edit to the original question, you can add \normalsize just before \vskip2\baselineskip:

\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@makechapterhead}[1]{\vspace*{50\p@}%
{\parindent \z@ \raggedright \normalfont
\hrule                                        % horizontal line
\vspace{5pt}%                                 % add vertical space
\interlinepenalty\@M
\Huge \scshape #1\par                        % chapter title
\vspace{5pt}%                                 % add vertical space
\hrule                                        % horizontal rule
\nobreak\normalsize
\vskip 2\baselineskip
}}

\renewcommand{\@makeschapterhead}[1]{%
\vspace*{50\p@}%
{\parindent \z@ \raggedright
\normalfont
\hrule                                        % horizontal line
\vspace{5pt}%                                 % add vertical space
\interlinepenalty\@M
\Huge \scshape #1\par                         % chapter title
\vspace{5pt}%                                 % add vertical space
\hrule                                        % horizontal line
\nobreak\normalsize
\vskip2\baselineskip
}}
\makeatother

And here's the same layout but using titlesec:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{titlesec}

\setlength\aftertitleunit{\baselineskip}

\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
  {\normalfont\Huge \scshape}{\titlerule}{-33pt}{\Huge}[\vspace{-4pt}\titlerule]
\titleformat{name=\chapter,numberless}[display]
  {\normalfont\Huge \scshape}{\titlerule}{-33pt}{\Huge}[\vspace{-4pt}\titlerule]
\titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{50pt}{*2}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\chapter{test}

\end{document}

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