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titleformat has no effect!

I have tried to specify the color for my section as shown here, but it has no effect. What am I doing wrong? MWE: \documentclass[10pt,letterpaper]{article} \usepackage{lipsum} \usepackage{multirow} ...
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Use of shaded box for section numbering only?

I have been wondering "how to get shaded box for section numbers only"? Also, How to get grey square in between left mark and page number in the header? In code below I can get solid black square. I ...
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coloring every chapter name in the document

My question is directly related to post-processing using authoring packages like etoolbox for instance. I've included the package as follow : \usepackage{etoolbox} what i try to do is to prepend ...
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How to best set chapter title color in the memoir class's Hansen style?

I am tinkering with the Hansen chapter style for the memoir class, as reviewed and listed in texblog. The Hansen style is unfortunately not discussed in the memoir class documentation. I changed it ...
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Paragraph and subparagraph title inheriting features from TeX group *after* it

I'm getting some strange behaviour when using the color package at paragraph and subparagraph level. See the code snippet below: \usepackage[usenames,dvips]{color} \section{A} {\color{Green} ...
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TOC and section headings colored [closed]

I am writing on a larger probject and I want to have colored headings (the part title and the chapter title, but not the section and subsection and so on). In the toc, I also want the part and the ...
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Titlesec and xcolor not playing nicely?

I am trying to use the titlesec and xcolor packages together (well, actually, the tufte-book class is, but that's another story.) Here is a minimal LaTeX file that illustrates my problem: ...
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Is it possible to change text color for all headings?

I want to change only the color (not font size, etc.) of all headings in my documents (\section, \subsection, \subsubsection, ...). I want to keep all other settings fixed. Is there a way to do ...
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Offset color block behind section titles

Joseph Wright's CV source contains a snippet of code that produces an offset color block behind section titles using the titlesec package, like so: \documentclass[11pt]{article} ...
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\subsubsection command and xcolor package

I am using xcolor package to draw some colored tables. But I am having trouble with the \subsubsection command. When I block comment the colored tables and xcolor package, it works. When I do not ...
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How can I set a color for the title rule?

I'm writing a document which uses titlesec, and I'd like to set the title rule to a different color. How can I do that? This is what I currently have, which produces section titles with black ...
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Coloring chapters and sections with respect to parts

I am using the book document class and I want to produce a document with several parts, chapters, sections, sections and subsections. I would like to make it easier for the reader by coloring ...
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Strange behaviour of titlesec, with colored titlerule

With the following MWE, i get the Section title underlined in black : \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage[explicit]{titlesec} \usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor} \titleformat{\section}% ...
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Giving headlines a background color spanning across the entire typearea

I posted this at stackoverflow and got redirected here. This does indeed look like a better place to ask. I would like to decorate my headlines (section, subsection, etc.) by adding a background ...
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How to prevent a page break between section title and colored rule?

I use \usepackage[explicit]{titlesec} to customize the design of my sections, subsections... In particular, i have : \titleformat{\section}% {\large\sffamily\bfseries}% {My Section \arabic{section} ...
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Colored sectioning - headings

I am working on some project in pdflatex. I am not an expert in this so I really need your help :). Well what I am trying to do: I (or somebody) will make some common .tex file (with some text) with ...
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How to frame headings in \texwidth-long colored bounding box?

I am trying to add a background frame around my sections and subsections. The frame should be colored (in an 80% gray) and span the \textwidth. I have tried a few (uninformed) approaches and ...
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Section and subsection colors using titlesec

Im trying to alter the colors on my section, subsection and subsubsection. I do so using the titlesec page: \titleformat*{\section}{\Large\bfseries\sffamily\color{red}} ...
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Colored chapter titles with the quotchap package

I already changed the chapter numbers using \definecolor{chaptergrey}{} But there must be some way to change the chapter titles also. Someone knows how?
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Change font colour of bringhurst chapterstyle in memoir

I would like to change the colour of chapter titles in bringhurst chapterstyle. The following should work, but apparantly I have misunderstood something and am not able to get it to work, and would ...
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How can I change the colour of my document's section numbering?

I know how to change the colour of a section name using for example \section{\color{Red} Foobar} but that still leaves the section number in black. Is there any way to change the colour of the ...