{sectioning} is about commands like \chapter or \section forming the logical structure of documents. For questions specifically about {parts}, {chapters} or lower-level commands ({sections-paragraphs}), add the respective tag to the more general {sectioning}. A popular package is {titlesec}.

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Wrong chapter in heading tufte latex

I have a Tufte-book with some chapters and a bibliography and index. This is set up as: \begin (document} \mainmatter %then I include several chapters: \include{Chapter/chaptertitle} ...
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\autoref should call sections within the appendix “appendix” not “section”

I make use of autoref thoughout my now rather long document. I have an appendix with sections, though currently a small number, so changes could be made here. I want references in my document to ...
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Table of Contents skipping first slide on beamer [closed]

I have this presentation with a table of contents, a background image and a "go back" button on the slides after the ToC. I know that the ToC automatically hyperlinks the existing sections, but when I ...
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Making section headers break two column flow

I'm new to LaTeX and I'm writing a document for which I'm using \documentclass[twocolumn]{article}. Is it possible to make \section headers break the two column flow? To clarify, I'd like a long ...
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Include a paper in a dissertation

I'm start writing my dissertation and I want to include two papers that I wrote in the appendix. I want them to appear in the original format that they were written (amsart). I'm using a template ...
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How do I add section/subsection numbers to pdf bookmarks?

I'm writing up solutions to some exercises, and having problems with the bookmarks produced in the resulting pdf file. In the document I'm using \section (slightly modified) and \exercise (based on ...
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Roman numbers on annexes

I'd like to have roman numbered annexes like this: 1 First Section 2 Second Section 3 Final Section Bibliography Annexes I First Annex II Second Annex III Third Annex IV Fourth Annex I'm ...
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Chapter heading at the right-hand side

I want a specific chapter heading as in the picture below (Chapter heading at the right-hand side, but section heading at the left-hand side) Can you help me?
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Support sections on the bookmark in landscape mode

I'm writing a book and I want to put a unnumbered chapter (chapter*), where I will discuss the results and then put the results in tables. These results are divided into three options, so I want to ...
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How to have headers, section headings, and figures expand into the margin?

I am interested in the following page layout. How to have headers in margins (up to margin) Is it possible to start section headings from margin How to set figures occupy the margins. I can ...
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How to reference \paragraph?

It is well-known that \section environment may be assigned a label \label{refname} and then the refname may be used in order to reference this section: \section{My nice section} ...
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How can I detect if an environment is right after a sectioning command?

I'd like to build an environment that would detect if it is right after a sectioning command (\section, \subsection or \subsubsection) and smart enough to detect if a float-type environment (say ...
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How to suppress Table of Contents section numbers?

I am using the following to suppress the numbering of \sections: \makeatletter \renewcommand\@seccntformat[1]{} \makeatother But in my \tableofcontents, the section numbers still appear. Is there a ...
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How can I remove “thebibliography” from the Table of Contents (TOC)?

I want to use a manual Bibliography but I need it as a subsection. In order to do this I did: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \begin{document} \section{My Section} \subsection{References} ...
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How to set the font for a \section title (and chapter etc)

How do I specify the fonts, and general font size, for the titles, chapters and sections in my document Update: I can see how my question is confusing. I use \section and \chapter etc. to organise ...
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Adjusting the line spacing of chapter headings in the book/report class

In my report, some chapter headings are long and they come in more than one line. The spacing between them is not aesthetically appealing. I need to reduce that line spacing. Kindly suggest a ...
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Display appendix chapter like: “Appendix”, and sections like “Appendix A: My appendix title”

I wish to make my appendix chapter like: "Appendix", and sections like "Appendix A: My appendix title" "Appendix B: My second title" by writing: \chapter{Appendix} \section{My appendix title} ...
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How to format subsection title (without packages)?

I'd like to change the format for \subsection{} without using special packages. On report.cls we find its definition \newcommand\subsection{\@startsection{subsection}{2}{\z@}% ...
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Don't want sections to have titles/headers [duplicate]

If you use a default section in an article like this: \section{something} Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet you get the "1 something" in the toc. And your page looks like this: 1 something Lorem ...
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What does \secdef do?

The definition of the chapter command in KOMA-class scrbook is: \newcommand\chapter{\if@openright\cleardoublepage\else\clearpage\fi \thispagestyle{\chapterpagestyle}% \global\@topnum\z@ ...
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Ajdust width for the number of section [duplicate]

I have a problem with table of contents. I have changed the numbers of sections, that instead of numbers I have words, lets say "Dodatok A". But now, when the "number" of section is longer, the title ...
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biblatex/multicol: Incorrect vertical space after bibliography heading

I'm trying to typeset a bibliography inside a multicols environment, but with the heading as a single column (using multicols' optional argument). I've noticed that the vertical space between the ...
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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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Same vertical spacing for chapter and chapter*

I use \chapter*{} in the \frontmatter and \chapter{} in the \mainmatter. I use titlesec and the styling of the chapter headings is this: \documentclass[10pt,a4paper,openany,oneside]{book} ... ...
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How to change part and chapter pages on KOMA-Script?

In KOMA-Script classes, how can I change the appeareance (font size, color, arrangment, content, etc.) of the page created by \part an \chapter? The pagestyle can be changed easily with KOMA-Script ...
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Just a part of TOC must be shown, beamer

Before I start talking about a new section, I would like to show de TOC whereby the part (section) that I will talk about is shown? So I would like that the rest is only vague opposite the section I ...
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Getting chapter and section in \fancyhead

I am having a bit of a heard time getting \fancyhead to give me the out put I want. I'd like to have a header that includes Chapter X: THIS IS THE SECTION (italicized like the default). I can get it ...
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Is it possible to remove chapter number from align environment? [duplicate]

Basically I have written a proof using the align environment in a new .tex file and the numbers in the proof came like this (how I want them): Line1 (1) Line2 (2) Line3 (3) Now I've ...
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How can I center align subsection heading in an AMSBOOK document

In an amsbook based document A subsection heading seems to be left aligned with some indentation in the beginning. Chapter and section headings are center aligned. How can I make subsections also ...
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Section command with default spaces between title and rule

Ho can I make a section command that have the same spaces between the \titlerule and the title of the original \section command? The overall look must be equal to the original \section command. So, Is ...
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Bibtex with no references title [duplicate]

I am working on writing a scientific poster in LaTeX, and I want to include a few references for my work. Because this is a poster, I have my own customized headers for different sections, and don't ...
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Error using \( … \) environment inside \section argument [duplicate]

This seems to me like a possibly common problem, the solution of which is probably already been posted somewhere, unfortunately I'm not quite sure what key words i should use to find it. Anyway, to ...
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How can one put a marker to every page in a chapter?

I am trying to create some sort of tabbing for a template am designing. I want the title page to have the colors of the chapters and then all of the pages within a chapter to have a marking as shown ...
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Is there any way to put the section numbers after titles like “axiom”, “theorem”, etc?

The normal LaTeX input and output would be something like \subsection{Theorem (Fundamental Theorem of Calculus)} 1.1 Theorem (Fundamental Theorem of Calculus) Is there any way to use a ...
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Sort subsections alphabetically

We need to make a paper that describes a list of interfaces. The assignment however says we need to sort the interfaces alphabetically. Because this list is quite long (20+) I am looking for a way to ...
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Slider ticker on beamer runs off page

I am creating a presentation using the beamer class and the Singapore theme, however I have so many sections that the slide ticker bar at the top runs off the edge of the page. Is there a way to make ...
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appendix package: making appendix subsections

The problem with the code below is, it treats the Safety section as its own independent section. So in the table of contents, I've got 'Appendices' and 'Safety' as separate sections. I want Safety to ...
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Appendices inside a section?

How can create appendices "numbered" A, B, C within three different sections of a Lyx article document. In other words, I would like Appendix A to be at the the end of my first section, Appendix B to ...
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Prevent new sections to start on the lower part of page [duplicate]

Is it possible to redefine the section-command so that it automatically starts on a new page if say less than a quarter of the current page remains? Below is a minimal working example. In this case ...
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Adding Subsubsection & Subsubsection* to the TOC with lyx?

I'm using, lyx 2.0.2, how can I add the Subsubsection in a document with a report class to the TOC, I tried the solution provided in this Question but didn't work for me, it generated no errors but no ...
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Using AtBeginSection and againframe to make custom section transitions

I am trying to make a custom slide to use as an inter-sectional slide in order to replace the more typical code: \AtBeginSection{ \begin{frame}[c,plain,noframenumbering] ...
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Title fontsize affects the fontsize of the content

I change some of my titles fontsize, for instance, the first chapter and first appendix \documentclass[11pt,a4paper,oneside,titlepage]{report} ...
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Indentation after section title on a first item of “easylist” item

The code: % XeLaTeX \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{geometry} \geometry{letterpaper} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage[50, sharp]{easylist} \usepackage{titlesec} ...
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How do I make the title 'Figure' appear on the same page as my first figure

This is my code: \documentclass[twoside, a4paper, 11pt]{article} \title{} \author{} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amsthm} \usepackage{mathtools} ...
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titlesec titlemarks not working with pdfcolparallel

As you can see from the screenshot the numbers showing the verse locations in the titlemarks only show the very last values which were set. If you comment out the line \usepackage{pdfcolparallel} and ...
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How to get rid of italic in the table of contents? [duplicate]

I formatted the titles of section and subsections in italic, and it appears italic in the Table of Contents, I want no influence on the Table of Contents. For example \subsection{\textit{The RGE for ...
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Numbering figures and tables in part

Here is the deal: I'm writing my thesis and I divided the thesis into 3 parts, each part had 2 chapters. At the beginning of each part, I added two pages of introduction. However, the numbering of ...
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Create a banner for section style

I am wondering if there is any way to change the default style for sections. I would like to create a banner (across the page) with a dark-gray background and the section title in white. It would be ...
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Dividing chapters into ch. 1, ch. 2a, ch. 2b, ch. 3 etc

I'm typesetting a book and one of the chapters separates into two chapters so I need it to count like so: chapter 1 --------- chapter 2a ---------- chapter 2b ---------- chapter 3 --------- ...
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How to remove “zero” preceding section number?

\documentclass[11pt]{book} \usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor} \makeatletter \let\stdl@section\l@section \renewcommand*{\l@section}[2]{% \stdl@section{\textcolor{blue}{#1}}{\textcolor{blue}{#2}}} ...

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