Formatting the headings

Question

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I'm still fairly new to latex and hoping to get some help on how to do the formatting of the font for chapters and headings. I've been looking around the forum for hours now, trying to see if I could piece it together myself but had to give up in the end.

I basically have two problems.

1. Desired format

1 Chapter 1.1 Section 1.1.1 Subsection 1.1.1.1 Subsubsection

I found this possible with:

\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}{}{}{0em}{\bf\LARGE\thechapter.~}

However this also puts a 0. in my Abstract chapter, which I don't know how to remove. It also creates double numbering in the ToC.

Is there a way around this so I can keep the numbering except for Abstract and not have double numbering in ToC?

2. Change Font

I found out how to change the font for the entire document. I simply used:

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{ebgaramond}
\usepackage[ebgaramond]{mathdesign}

I only wish to use Garamond as the normal text while using another font (http://surl.dk/e1e/ from this list most likely) for headings. How do I go about changing the fonts of the headings?

I'm on Mac OSX 10.9.4 using TeXworks.

I appreciate any help.

Full code:

%% Preamble start

%%%% --- Basic ---

\documentclass[12pt,twoside]{report}
\usepackage[a4paper,width=150mm,top=25mm,bottom=25mm,bindingoffset=6mm]{geometry}


%%%% --- Typography ---

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{ebgaramond}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\setlength\parindent{0pt}
\usepackage{titlepic}

%%%% --- Headings ---

%
% ?????
%

%%%% --- Math and Chem specifics ---

\usepackage[ebgaramond]{mathdesign}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}  %Easier to write chem compounds ie. \ce{H2O} and \ce{PO4^2-}

%% Preamble end

\title{Report Ex}
\author{John Smith}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\chapter{Abstract}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.\\
\tableofcontents
\chapter{Introduction}
\section{Background}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.\\
%
\subsection{Details}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.\\
%
%
\section{History}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.\\
%
\section{Analysis}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
\end{document}

Answer 1

If I've understood correctly, this should do what you want. I've commented the code a bit.

To use the garamond option, you need to install URW Garamond. You can do this using getnonfreefonts-sys which is a script you can use to easily install additional fonts. Make sure you use the sys version when you run the script.

\documentclass[12pt,twoside,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage[width=150mm,top=25mm,bottom=25mm,bindingoffset=6mm]{geometry}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}  %Easier to write chem compounds ie. \ce{H2O} and \ce{PO4^2-}
\usepackage[garamond]{mathdesign}
\usepackage[british]{babel}% if you want UK - otherwise use american
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage{parskip}% don't set \parindent and \parskip manually (and you'll want positive parskip if parindent is zero so this should work OK)
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}{\bfseries\LARGE}{\thechapter~}{0em}{}

\title{Report Ex}
\author{John Smith}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\chapter*{Abstract}
    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.

\tableofcontents

\chapter{Introduction}

\section{Background}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.

\subsection{Details}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.

\section{History}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.

\section{Analysis}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
\end{document}

EBGaramond lacks bold by design. So if you want to use bold, you need to use another garamond. If you want to stick to EBGaramond, don't use mathdesign as it does not support EBGaramond and is causing you to end up with a mixture of EBGaramond for regular weight and something else for bold which cannot be good.