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I had to mess with the settings of the book class to match people's will. Removing the "Chapter X \\ Xtitle" part and replacing it with "X. Xtitle" for instance. In verdana 14 (so I compile with XeLaTeX, also because the body text is written in Perpetua, 13pt).

Anyway, I whittled my code down to the following MWE. How do I get rid of "0. Chapter title" in \frontmatter book chapter titles? But I do want to keep "Chapter title".

\documentclass{book}

\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{fontspec} % compile w/XeLaTeX
\setmainfont{Perpetua}
\newfontfamily\chapterfont{Verdana}


\makeatletter % https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/18604/chapter-formatting
\def@makechapterhead#1{%
  {\parindent \z@ \raggedright \chapterfont\fontsize{14pt}{0pt}\bfseries
    \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne
        \thechapter.\ % <-- Chapter # (without "Chapter")
    \fi
    \interlinepenalty@M
    #1\par\nobreak% <------------------ Chapter title
    \vskip 12pt% <------------------ Space between chapter title and first paragraph
  }}
\makeatother


\begin{document}


\frontmatter
    \chapter{Preface}
    \lipsum
    \chapter{Abstract}
    \lipsum
    \tableofcontents
\mainmatter
    \chapter{A chapter}
    \lipsum
    \chapter{Another chapter}
    \lipsum


\end{document}

Any thoughts?

Edited to include fontspec and some settings in the package to remove the most egregious errors in the MWE.There are a few commands that are terminated with a space which is code copied from another answer.

BlueIris
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