I am writing my bachelor thesis and my supervisor gave me a word template. I like LaTeX though and will convert the Word Template into a LaTeX template. I usually managed to do this, but now I am kind of stuck. I have tried to create an indent of 1.5cm between section title and section number with this command:
\usepackage{titlesec} \titlespacing*{\section}{0pt}{38pt}{10pt}
\titleformat{\section}{\normalfont\fontsize{14}{17}\bfseries}{\thesection}{1.5cm}{}
\titleformat{\subsection}{\normalfont\fontsize{12}{15}\bfseries}{\thesubsection}{1.5cm}{}
\titleformat{\subsubsection}{\normalfont\fontsize{12}{15}\bfseries}{\thesubsubsection}{1.5cm}{}
This creates a 1.5cm space between my section number and section title, so it looks like this:
I want to copy this word setting:
So that it looks like this:
I have read through the titlesec documentation but haven't found anything that helps me. How can I achieve the desired margins between section number and section title?