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I change some of my titles fontsize, for instance, the first chapter and first appendix

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,oneside,titlepage]{report}
\usepackage{amssymb,amsthm,amsmath,amsfonts,mathrsfs,syntonly}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage{color}
\linespread{1.4}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{booktabs}


\title{\textbf{My Title}}
\author{John Smith\\[5pt]
University of XXX\\[15pt]}

\date{\today}



\begin{document}
\maketitle
\tableofcontents


\chapter{\LARGE My first chapter}
Here is my first chapter


\chapter{My second chapter}
Here is my first chapter



\chapter{My third chapter}
Here is my first chapter



\appendix
\chapter{\LARGE The first appendix}
\end{document}

However, these commands affect my Table of Contents, this line of content also change the font size. Would anyone tell me how to avoid this?

I am using TeXnicCenter and MiKTeX distribution.

Werner
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Flying pig
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  • That's not what I would expect. Can you please ass a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem? It will be much easier for us to reproduce your situation and find out what the issue is when we see compilable code, starting with \documentclass{...} and ending with \end{document}. – jub0bs May 05 '13 at 06:56
  • Hi, i just upload the whole codes, the first chapter and first appendix are using different fontsize. And so affects the fontsize of the table of contents. – Flying pig May 05 '13 at 07:08
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    Ok, now I understand the problem. You shouldn't format headings that way. Instead, use the \titleformat from the titlesec package. See this. – jub0bs May 05 '13 at 07:11
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    Or at least, write \chapter{{\LARGE My first chapter}} (note the double braces), to contain the font change. – Ryan Reich May 05 '13 at 07:12
  • @RyanReich Not that (otherwise you'll get the wrong linespacing), and anyway putting font changes in \chapter (and also in \title in the MWE) is just the wrong thing to do. – David Carlisle May 05 '13 at 10:34
  • @David I will just pretend that my comment was intended to bring forth your rebuttal :) – Ryan Reich May 05 '13 at 14:16

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You can use the optional argument to avoid that font changes are used in the toc (and the header) too:

\chapter[My first chapter]{\LARGE My first chapter}

But you should really avoid such individual font size changes. It will look awful. All your chapter titles should use the same font size.

Ulrike Fischer
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