[Tex/LaTex] Uppercase, bold and underlined chapter title

chapterstitlesec

I have my document like this (in main.tex):

% Document type: report (master/bachelor thesis)
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,appendix]{report}

\input{template/FormatsAndDefs.tex} % here I have specified various format settings

\begin{document}
  \input{thesis.tex}
\end{document}

In FormatsAndDefs.tex I have specified format for chapter titles like this:

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{titlesec}
% various other packages

\titleformat{\chapter}
  {\normalfont\Large\bfseries}{\thechapter}{.5em}{\vspace{.5ex}}[\titlerule]
\titlespacing*{\chapter}      
    {0pt}{0pt}{15pt}

So my title chapters are formatted like this:

How can I make this chapter title "Introducion" in ALL UPPERCASE while keeping it bold and underlined?

I have tried to use \MakeUppercase :

\titleformat{\chapter}
  {\normalfont\LARGE\bfseries}{\MakeUppercase{\thechapter}}{.5em}{\vspace{.5ex}}[\titlerule]

but chapter remained still the same as shown in the picture.

Best Answer

You need to have a handle on the chapter title, and the only way to do this is to use the explicit option with titlesec:

\documentclass{report}

\usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\titleformat{\chapter}
  {\normalfont\Large\bfseries}{\thechapter \quad \MakeUppercase{#1}}{.5em}{\vspace{.5ex}}[\titlerule]
\titlespacing*{\chapter}
  {0pt}{0pt}{15pt}

\begin{document}

\chapter{Introduction}

\lipsum

\end{document}

This option allows you to explicitly state the sectional title as #1, where you can now wrap it within \MakeUppercase.

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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.

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Use a couple of \MakeUppercase instructions:

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

\usepackage{titlesec}

\titleformat{\chapter}[hang]
  {\normalfont\Large\bfseries}
  {\MakeUppercase{\chaptertitlename}\ \thechapter:}
  {.5em}
  {\MakeUppercase}

\begin{document}

\mainmatter

\chapter{Marco Teórico}

\end{document}

I used \Large instead of \huge because I got an overfull line with the latter. I also reduced the space between the colon and the title.

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