{titlesec} is a package providing an interface to {sectioning} commands.
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Automatically adding \noindent after \section{*}
I'm using titlesec package and a document class ABNT Class which follows a Brazilian standard for document development. So far I've managed to follow the Brazilian Computer Association guidelines for ...
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Hide \thechapter for unnumbered Chapters
I want to display my Chapter-Numbers on the right below the Title. I came to the following minimal working example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{marginnote}
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Error while trying to start chapters on the same page
This is my first post here. I have tried the solution proposed in this site to start chapters in the same page as the previous one ended but I always get an error. I am a TeX newbie and I feel that ...
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Chapter heading
I was trying to personalize the chapter and section headings using titlesec for my master thesis using the following code
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{titlesec}
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Format ToC for thesis
I apologize for the unspecified and broad question but I have no way to be specific. I'm looking to generate the TOC and List of Figure, List of Table according to the format required by my school.
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“Missing \endcsname inserted” and other errors when trying to align title section
I want to somehow align section headings: unnumbered should be centerized; numbered should be aligned left and indented. I'm just trying to compile an example
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Change size of section, subsection, subsubsection, paragraph and subparagraph title
I would like to increase the size of pretty much every headlines, so that it is more prominent than the normal text.
I read about the titlesec package, but can't seem to find good example how to use ...
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Package titlesec adds extra space on top of \chapter, despite commands to the contrary
My university's Ph.D. thesis guidelines specify an exact top-margin on the first pages of chapters. I am trying to use titlesec to set this margin, but it seems to always set it to be more than it ...
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How do you make a customization on the chapter page
I can't figure out how to modify it so that it looks like the image below.
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}
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chapter headings vertically centered but not table of contents
My university requires the chapter headings to be on a separate page and vertically and horizontally cantered. Based on some of the answers on this forum i used the following code to achieve it.
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Section indent or leftmargin
I use the titlesec package for decoration sections and subsections. But i do not know how to change leftmargin or indent for this.
Look at the picture, the green line is where i want to move the ...
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titleformat not being applied to bibliography
Here is a MWE of the code I am using for applying a titleformat to my chapters.
But it does not get applied to my bibliography chapter.
Any ideas why?
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{report}
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Specific section format
I'd like to use titlesec to typeset a section header that would look like this:
--------- Name of Section ------------
(the ---- would be a rule, and the entire section header would be centered)
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Shaded box around multiline section heading?
I'm using LaTeX to write up an assignment which comprises a number of questions. I'd like to break up the questions from my answers by placing the section headings inside a shaded box. I'm relatively ...
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Setting the upper margin of chapter titles in scrbook
In a scrbook document I need to set the chapter titles close to the upper page margin, without leading number and with a \hrule afterwards. Redefining \chapterheadstartvskip does the trick with the ...
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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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titlesec messin' up my hyperref'd table of contents
Please consider the following multipage MWE, which contains page number restarting; made to compile with pdflatex test.tex:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
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Centring a heading, including the numbering
I've got a problem that should be simple to fix. I'm using the fontspec to layout my chapter headings like so
%!TEX TS-program = xelatex
%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
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How to have an amsart-like subsection style
If you use the amsart class, then it puts a period after the subsection title, but not if there is no title. For example, if I write
\subsection{Title}
Blah1
\subsection{}
Blah2
Then amsart ...
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How to make horizontal lines thicker?
I am customizing the section module following the tutorial here
http://blog.scribtex.com/how-to-write-a-latex-class-file-and-design-yo
How do I make the
[\titlerule] % Inserts a ...
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Explanation of code using \titleformat [closed]
I am writing a project in latex and to make my output pdf look more fancy i am using a "Fancy chapter headings with TikZ" code found here http://texblog.net/latex-archive/layout/fancy-chapter-tikz/ ...
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Suppress headers when page contains a section title using titlesec
I'm writing a book with titlesec and try to suppress headers containing the section name, when the section starts at the top of the respective page. Given that all my sections start on a new page I ...
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Positioning the beginning of table of content (toc) to the top of the page
I managed with great help from here to shift the beginning of the chapter titles to the top of the page, but it doesn't affect the table of content. Why is that? And how could I do that?
I don't ...
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Can't shift/position \chapter with titlesec?
Somehow I my attempt to change the placement of \chapter seems not to work. I would like to that my chaptertitle begins right at the top of the page. Do I need to change the plain pagestyle?
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2answers
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Impossible to have a Tikz fading in a titlesec header?
I want to put a TikZ figure with a fading effect (which I reproduced in the body of the document as illustration) in the page header, which I set with the package titlesec. The following MWE seems to ...
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amsart and titlesec - title font won't change
Ok, I am very new to LaTeX. I am using a default template. I have been trying to figure out how to change the font sizes and other formatting. Reading forums convinced me to try titlesec. All titlesec ...
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Vertical alignment with titlesec package [closed]
I'm using the titlesec package with the leftmargin option for the \section level. It works how I want, title staying at the top of the section, except when the firs line of the paragraph contains a ...
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Section should automatically start new page if the whole section does not fit on current page
I would like my sections to start on a new page if they do not fit on the current page. In other words: if a section fits on the current page print it, if it does not fit start printing it on the ...
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1answer
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Setting vertical spacing between different document elements at the same time
I have the following problem.
Let's define three types of document elements: Titles, Paragraphs and Longtables.
The problem is to setup vertical spaces between them independently.
For example, let's ...
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Modifying toc & bib titles
I would like to \flushright the toc's and bibliography's title, but the font size and spaces above and below should be the same as for regular chapters.
Here is what I did:
\documentclass{report}
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How to import additional code into class file
I was inspired by the article "Fancy chapter headings with TikZ" (Stefan Kottwitz many thx) and I have created the whole fancy sectioning. But what I need to do now is to import this whole code for ...
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votes
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Format title: section number flush left and title centered?
How can I format with the titlesec package that I get somethine like this (this is a twocolumn document):
I do not know how to get the number to the left and the title in the center is this ...
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Obtaining the default section spacing into the \titlespacing* parameters
I'm using the book class.
I want to modify the spacing before and after my sections using the \titlespacing* command.
However, before I do that, I want to let its parameters be such that they ...
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How can I hide the chapter headings number on LaTeX and change the spacing?
I'm writing my Thesis but I have run into some layout troubles, I'm using the standard book document class, which results in my Chapters headings in the form of:
Chapter #
Name of my chapter
...
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How to extract the value from a pgfkeys style element
Lets say I have defined some style:
\tikzset{mystyle/.style={inner xsep=2pt, outer xsep=10pt}}
Given the name of the style: How can I later get the (possibly overriden) value of one of its element, ...
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Use sections “inline”
How can I get the startpoints for my sections (see top part of MWE) as one inline text, similar to what can be done with the bottom part of my MWE? I need the sections since my title marks etc work ...
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Vertical space before section title with titlesec
I was trying to eliminate the vertical space before and after the title of a section by using the titlesec package and the command \titlespacing*{\section}{0pt}{0pt}{0pt}, but it works only in ...
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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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votes
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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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votes
1answer
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\titleformat{name=\section} in documentclass
I defined a documentclass in which I redefine a heading format with (using the package titlesec):
\titleformat{name=\section}
This works.
But if I move this \titleformat{name=\section} to a ...
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votes
1answer
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Center body and left margin in page
I'm using the titlesec package to put section titles to the left of their body, but I'd like for the entire page to appear centered. That is, I'd like for the space from the far left of the page to ...
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is it possible to fake the amsart class format?
I often use the amsart documentclass. I like it because it is very compact (it also seems to be an industry standard in my area).
What I don't like about it is that I'm not able to use kpfonts or ...
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votes
1answer
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\addvspace after a titlesec heading
So, I'm trying to make an environment that is always padded above and below by a certain vertical space, no more and no less (unless the previous or following elements require even more space). My ...
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Strange behaviour of \renewpagestyle from the titlesec package
The following code uses the pagestyles option and \renewpagestyle from the titlesec package to redefine the plain style:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[paperheight=12cm]{geometry}
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Temporarily modifying the chapter headings' layout
I would like to modify the layout of some "special" chapters in my document, but afterwards reset to the layout I used before, i.e.
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\begin{document}
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Conflict between the packages titlesec and marginnote
In the following code, the use of the package titlesec modifies dramatically the formatting based on the package marginnote. The package titlesec is needed so as to use this.
Is there one possibility ...
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Incompatibilities between KOMA-Script and titlesec
This is a complementary question to About memoir and titlesec incompatibility. The titlesec manual states (p. 2) that the package
[...] works with the standard classes and with many others, ...
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Current section title macro using titlesec
I have a macro that contains the title for the current section, however when using the titlesec package, it no longer works for \section and \subsection. I know titlesec redefines the functions I'm ...
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Usage of titlesec package when numbering sections
This question evolved from my earlier question posted here. It turnt out that what I gave as the MWE actually worked, so I investigated a bit and found the real problem.
I have a document in which I ...
