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I know that designing fancy things under latex can sometimes be very difficult. I've designed the following model under powerpoint in 5 minutes, and now I would like to achieve this with latex (I have to use the book class for my document, but I can use all existing package).

So here is the challenge:

Chapter image

How to do the same thing for my latex document?

lockstep
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Vincent
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1 Answers1

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Here's one possibility:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[margin=1.5cm,a5paper]{geometry}
\usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
\usepackage{titletoc}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{epigraph}
\usepackage{xpatch}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\newlength\ChapWd
\settowidth\ChapWd{\huge\chaptertitlename}

\definecolor{myblue}{RGB}{0,0,122}

\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
  {\normalfont\filcenter\sffamily}
  {\tikz[remember picture,overlay]
    {
    \node[fill=myblue,font=\fontsize{60}{72}\selectfont\color{white},anchor=north east,minimum size=\ChapWd] 
      at ([xshift=-15pt,yshift=-15pt]current page.north east) 
      (numb) {\thechapter};
    \node[rotate=90,anchor=south,inner sep=0pt,font=\huge] at (numb.west) {\chaptertitlename};
    }
  }{0pt}{\fontsize{33}{40}\selectfont\color{myblue}#1}[\vskip10pt\Large***]
\titlespacing*{\chapter}
  {0pt}{50pt}{10pt}


\makeatletter
\xpatchcmd{\ttl@printlist}{\endgroup}{{\noindent\color{myblue}\rule{\textwidth}{1.5pt}}\vskip30pt\endgroup}{}{}
\makeatother

\newcommand\DoPToC{%
\startcontents[chapters]
\printcontents[chapters]{}{1}{\noindent{\color{myblue}\rule{\textwidth}{1.5pt}}\par\medskip}%
}

\setlength\epigraphrule{0pt}
\renewcommand\textflush{flushright}
\renewcommand\epigraphsize{\normalsize\itshape}

\begin{document}

\chapter{Title of the first chapter}
\epigraph{A brainy quote -- Its Author}{}
\DoPToC
\lipsum[4]
\section{A test section}
\lipsum[4]
\subsection{A test subsection}
\lipsum[4]
\subsection{A test subsection}
\lipsum[4]
\section{Another test section}
\lipsum[4]
\section{Yet another test section}
\lipsum[4]
\subsection{A test subsection}
\lipsum[4]
\subsection{A test subsection}
\lipsum[4]

\chapter{Title of the second chapter}
\DoPToC
\lipsum[4]
\section{A test section}
\lipsum[4]
\subsection{A test subsection}
\lipsum[4]
\subsection{A test subsection}
\lipsum[4]
\subsection{A test subsection}
\lipsum[4]
\section{Another test section}
\lipsum[4]
\subsection{A test subsection}
\lipsum[4]
\subsection{A test subsection}
\lipsum[4]

\end{document}

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  • The formatting for the chapter headings was produced using the titlesec and TikZ packages.

  • The partial ToCs (with the decorative rules) were obtained using the titletoc package. Simply calling \DoPToC after \chapter{...} produces the partial ToC and its rules.

  • The epigraph package was used for the epigraphs.

Gonzalo Medina
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