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I am using REVTex 4-1, for my own personal use, not a paper submission. I like using REVTex and I have gotten somewhat used to it, but for my current purposes I need left aligned subsections headings. In REVTex only rmp documentclass option gives that, but it also changes other aspects(I prefer prb).

I tried using command \titleformat from the titlesec package, but i can't figure out how to change only one option without changing other settings set by the REVTex (and prb)

\titleformat{\subsection}{\raggedright}{}{}{}

\titleformat*{\subsection}{\raggedright}

Is there a way to only set left alignment, without changing other settings?

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  • Welcome to TeX.SX! You can have a look at our starter guide to familiarize yourself further with our format.
    – karlkoeller
    Jan 11 '15 at 20:13
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You can simply load the package etoolbox and patch the definitions of \section and \subsection to have \raggedright instead of \centering.

MWE:

\documentclass[prb]{revtex4-1}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\patchcmd{\section}
  {\centering}
  {\raggedright}
  {}
  {}
\patchcmd{\subsection}
  {\centering}
  {\raggedright}
  {}
  {}


\begin{document}
\section{Long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long section title}

\subsection{Long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long subsection title}
\end{document}

Output:

enter image description here

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If you want to keep using the pra option in document class and make the title move to the left, try this:

\usepackage{titlesec}
% move section headings to left
\titleformat{\section}{\raggedright\bfseries}{\arabic{section}.}{1em}{}`
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  • (a) \thesection instead of \arabic{section} keeps the kind of numbering. (b) The corresponding command form of environment flushleft for left aligned text is \raggedright.
    – Heiko Oberdiek
    May 25 '17 at 14:04
  • Thank you for the comment. I cannot comply to your suggestion about replacing \arabic{section} though. In revtex4-1 class roman numbering is set as default, and to dominate over this \arabic{section} seems to be the only possible way. Working with \thesection did not give the required result.
    – thatgeeman
    Jun 9 '17 at 14:36
  • (a) I would not mix different numbering formats for the same entity. (b) If \thesection does not have the desired outcome, then it should be redefined.
    – Heiko Oberdiek
    Jun 9 '17 at 16:24

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