{titlesec} is a package providing an interface to {sectioning} commands.

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Section numbers behind section title

I'm an absolute newbie to TeX. I'm trying to get the section numbers of a section to be at the end of the title. In other words, something like "Question 4.2". Instead I get "4.2 Question 4.2" which ...
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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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Two-line spanning number in chapter title

I try to have the chapter's number in my document twice as big as the title on the left and the two-line chapter title on the right. The number should span two lines, so the two lines of the title are ...
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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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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 ...
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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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How to change the style of “Contents” heading?

Help me, please to make the style of "Contents" heading to be as \chapter{Le choix du thème}. Also I would like to put all headings a little bit higher and to fix the hyperref for "Contents" in pdf ...
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Make the titles centered using the titlesec package

I am using the titlesec package to better define my section headings. I have a question about it: How can I make the titles already centered in the middle of the page? I have them centered (at the top ...
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Using both titlesec and fncychap in the same document

I have created my thesis using fncychap to customize the chapters. There are also chapters starred created using chapter*{}. I would add an hrule in those chapters. As the user mafp suggested me, it ...
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Problems with titlesec, hyperref, biblatex and tocbibind

I am using the titlesec package to change the section font to sans-serif. Unfortunately, this breaks the links to "unnumbered" sections both in the TOC and in the bookmarks sidebar of PDF readers. I ...
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Sectioning created via titlesec have wrong \label

I have created the following custom sectioning using the titlesec package. % in the preamble \newcounter{phase} \titleclass{\phase}{straight}[\section] ...
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extra } when use titlesec package

In the .tex file, I want to use the package titlesec. But there is a error: ! Argument of \subparagraph has an extra }. Is there some simple method to fix this? The code is: ...
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how to color the header's bottom line or footer's upper line?

The title is self-explanatory. In my document's current state, I get this rendering result after compiling with XeLaTeX : Here's a MWE of which packages and commands I use to obtain my current ...
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Getting chapter title bigger

I would get bigger only the chapter title. I heard I should use titlesec package but I didn't understand how I should use it to achieve what I mean. I'm using book class
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titlesec and bibliography

I use titlesec to capitalize and display the chapter title at the center. Everything is fine until I get to the bibliography, the word 'bibliography' is not capitalized. Here is an example ...
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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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Firsttitlemarks does not appear consistently in header

I am using this code for my header marks, but as you can see it misses the very first mark for the subsection which should be the first verse. % definition of the page style with required headers ...
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Transfering Style of Sectioning-Titles to TOC-, LOF-, LOT-Titles

This is a continuation of my last (answered) question: I want to style the Title of TOC, LOF and LOT exactly the same as the Sectioning-Titles. Problem is that they (a) start "higher" than normal ...
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Reducing/removing gap between header and custom chapter title

I'm writing a portfolio/report with pdflatex and while trying to get a header and footer I have got a situation where there's now a significant gap between the header and the chapter title, whereas ...
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Add a rule after chapter title using titlesec

I've been experimenting with chapter title formatting using titlesec but I can't seem to find the proper way to add a rule just below the chapter title. After reading the doc, I found that \titleline ...
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Customizing \chapter command

Here is the picture: The code is from this post. \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{book} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{lipsum} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage{titlesec} \setmainfont{EB Garamond ...
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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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titlesec: toptitlemarks and bottitlemarks broken when \section not called explicitly

This question is linked to my previous chapter-and-verse-in-header question I am trying to produce a Bible text where the Chapter and Verse references appear in the header of each page. As can be ...
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Passing shape argument to titleformat as a command

I aim at using to types of chapter headings in my document: for preambule and appendix, simple underlined upper case, while for the main chapters, I want to have a full page with "chapter n / Title" ...
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\titlespacing* defaults using the compact option

Using the titlesec package with the compact option, what are the \titlespacing* defaults (for \section, \subsection, etc.) for the article document class? (I have the standard defaults from the ...
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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 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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Titlesec and Babel incompatibility?

I cannot find a way to change chapter style with babel included (for hungarian language). Here is the example: \documentclass[a4paper]{report} \usepackage[magyar]{babel} \usepackage{titlesec} ...
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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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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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Conflict between titlesec and colortbl

I'm getting a conflict between titlesec and colortbl that I can't seem to fix. The minimal working example is below. As soon as I put a \section in, pdflatex errors with ! Missing number, treated as ...
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Add a hrule to only chapter not numbered

I am thinking of adding a hrule to only chapters that are not numbered, in other words the chapters created using chapter*{}. I thought of using the titlesec package- My problem is that I cannot find ...
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How to change the formatting of chapter titles in the endnotes

I'm using pagenotes in the memoir class for a book. This is all the code I'm using that I think is relevant: \let\pagenote=\endnote \makeatletter \renewcommand*\prenotetext{% \list{}{% ...
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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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How to use a counter inside \titleformat in LaTeX?

I am writing a text in LaTeX and I want my \paragraphs to be numerated. I am using package titlesec and the following sentences: \newcounter{artNumber} \setcounter{artNumber}{1} ...
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Special chapter title formatting

Using the book class. I would like to have chapter titles that look like this: | CHAPTER ## | | Chapter Title (italic) | Can titlesec do this?
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titlesec - set top margin for the appendix and bibliography

A while ago I was helped using titlesec to format the chapter title for my thesis. Today a reviewer says that the appendix and the bibliography need 1in top margin. How do I do it? Thanks. ...
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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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Why chapter label below the section label on new page even if by setting same spacing before title (use titlesec package)?

\documentclass{book} \usepackage[margin=0pt,papersize={50pt,70pt}]{geometry} \usepackage{titlesec} \titleformat{\chapter}{\Huge\bfseries}{}{0em}{} \titleformat{\section}{\Huge\bfseries}{}{0em}{} ...
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titlesec: \assignpagestyle problem with part

According to the titlesec documentation (section 3.5): You can assign a page style to levels of class top and page, as well as the default chapter with the following command: ...
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Titlesec: \ifthesection command issue with biblatex refsegment

I'm using titlesec to set my page style and biblatex to print a cumulative bibliography subdivided by chapter. There seems to be some problem with the \ifthesection command because in the following ...
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titlesec and \section* in \titleformat

I use \titleformat (titlesec package) to make some fancy headings in my documents. But I did not find a way to know, in the \titleformat specifications, if the section is made with a \section or a ...
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Titletoc and Titlesec in just some chapters

I have a twocolumn document and I should insert the minitoc in the first chapters with titlesec and titletoc. I read the answer to Customize minitoc; however, if I change the \titleformat before ...
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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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Customizing Table of Contents Formatting

For the most part, the default formatting for the ToC, LoF, and LoT is fine. But I need to add an extra line (university's requirements for my thesis) between each numbered entry. In order to do this, ...
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Issue wrapping a titlesec titleformat in a newcommand

I have a long document where I change the style of subsection headings in different parts of the document. I'm using titlesec with the explict option as it is necessary for the way I'm formatting ...
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Spacing before and after section titles

I know this subject has been mentioned before, but I'm still having a problem in creating a space under a section title. I used the titlesec package and then tried using the command ...
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How do I hide “Chapter 0” in this custom style when using a numberless chapter?

Everything works perfect when I use \chapter{chaptername}, but I noticed that my table of contents and other similar non-numbered chapters have a "Chapter 0" in my header. \titleformat{\chapter} ...
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Using titlesec in beamerarticle with a modified section command

This is further to the solution provided to my previous question about allocating short and long titles correctly to the beamer and article output of a beamerarticle. The solution provided there ...
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Titlesec ruins Table of Contents formatting

I'm trying to use the titlesec package, but somehow section names in the \tableofcontents become overlapped with the TOC numbers and subsection names become improperly indented. Here's an example, ...