Introduction title & headers

Question

There are several problems which I am dealing with.

Basically, I want to eliminate "Chapter 1" from the title of my introduction. In order to do that, I used

\chapter*{Introduction}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\textbf{Introduction}}

The problem with this approach is that it does not change the headers, which remain the ones of the previous section ("Contents").

It should be noted that I have changed both the title and the headers format.

\documentclass[12pt, a4paper, twoside, openright]{book}

\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}


\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\vspace*{-10ex}\Large}
{\thispagestyle{empty}\titleline[l]{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}\vspace{6pt}\titlerule[.8pt]}    {\dimexpr-\baselineskip+6pt\relax}
{\LARGE\bfseries\filleft}

\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[LO]{\nouppercase{\rightmark}}
\fancyhead[RE]{\nouppercase{\leftmark}}
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\thepage}

\begin{document}

\nocite{*}
\maketitle
\cleardoublepage\null\newpage
\tableofcontents


\chapter*{Introduction}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\textbf{Introduction}}

\end{document}

Do you know how to solve this issue?

Furthermore, is it possible to restore the classic title format only for the introduction?

Bernard · Answer 1 · 2017-06-11T10:26:05.363

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Change the value of secnumdepth locally, you won't even have to use \addcontentsline:

\documentclass[12pt, a4paper, twoside, openright]{book}

\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{lipsum} 

\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\vspace*{-10ex}\Large}
{\thispagestyle{empty}\titleline[l]{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}\vspace{6pt}\titlerule[.8pt]} {\dimexpr-\baselineskip+6pt\relax}
{\LARGE\bfseries\filleft}

\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[LO]{\nouppercase{\rightmark}}
\fancyhead[RE]{\nouppercase{\leftmark}}
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\thepage}

\begin{document}

\nocite{*}
%\maketitle
%\cleardoublepage\null\newpage
\tableofcontents

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{-1}
\chapter{Introduction}    
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{2}    \chapter{First Chapter}
\lipsum

\end{document}

Added: To have the unnumbered chapters titles flush left, add this code to your preamble:

\titleformat{name=\chapter, numberless}[block]
{\vspace*{-10ex}\LARGE\bfseries\filright}
{} {0pt}
{\thispagestyle{empty}}

edited Jun 11 '17 at 10:26

answered Jun 10 '17 at 21:09

Bernard

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Thank you Bernard. Do you know how to put the title on the left?
The problem is that I have to do the same for the Conclusion. Is it possible with your suggestion?
– Jonathan_Lo Jun 11 '17 at 07:54
@Marco: Do you mean the title itself (not the title in the header)? With the chapter title on the right for numbered chapters? – Bernard Jun 11 '17 at 09:51
Yes. The title itself. I want to title format that I have redefined for numbered chapters. And the classic title format for the Introduction, the Conclusion and the Bibliography. – Jonathan_Lo Jun 11 '17 at 09:54
Do you have other unnumbered chapters? – Bernard Jun 11 '17 at 09:57
Yes. Conclusion and Bibliography. – Jonathan_Lo Jun 11 '17 at 10:00
And table of contents. Please see my addendum. – Bernard Jun 11 '17 at 10:27

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 11 '17 at 04:44

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I would use package unnumeredtotoc as seen in the LaTeX wikibook.

\addchap{Introduction} takes care of the toc entry and the corresponding header.

\documentclass[12pt, a4paper, twoside, openright]{book}

\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}


\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\vspace*{-10ex}\Large}
{\thispagestyle{empty}\titleline[l]{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}\vspace{6pt}\titlerule[.8pt]}    {\dimexpr-\baselineskip+6pt\relax}
{\LARGE\bfseries\filleft}

\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[LO]{\nouppercase{\rightmark}}
\fancyhead[RE]{\nouppercase{\leftmark}}
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\thepage}
\setlength{\headheight}{14.5pt}

\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{unnumberedtotoc}% <--------------
\begin{document}

\tableofcontents


\addchap{Introduction}% <--------------
\blindtext[10]

\end{document}

answered Jun 11 '17 at 04:44

Johannes_B

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Thank you, but the package unnumberedtotoc does not exist. – Jonathan_Lo Jun 11 '17 at 07:53
@Marco Yes, it does. There is a link to a github repo linked on the wikibook page. – Johannes_B Jun 11 '17 at 07:54
https://github.com/johannesbottcher/unnumberedtotoc/ – Johannes_B Jun 11 '17 at 07:55
The link can also be found in the answer to the same question linked above. – Johannes_B Jun 11 '17 at 07:56
Thank you very much. It works. But how can I put the title on the left? – Jonathan_Lo Jun 11 '17 at 08:22
@Marco What do you mean? – Johannes_B Jun 11 '17 at 08:26
I redefined the format of the title and thus the title is displayed on the right (__________XXXX) and not on the left (XXXX_______). – Jonathan_Lo Jun 11 '17 at 08:28
Well then, simply don't do that redefinition and remove the \fillleft. – Johannes_B Jun 11 '17 at 08:35
Yes. But the problem is that I want to do that redefinition (only) for chapters who have "chapter x" at the beginning. Is possible to do that? – Jonathan_Lo Jun 11 '17 at 08:44
@marco i would suggest to ask that as a new question. – Johannes_B Jun 11 '17 at 08:49

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