Questions tagged [sections-paragraphs]
{sections-paragraphs} is about the lower-level sectioning commands from \section to \subparagraph that help to form the logical structure of documents. This tag should only be used *in addition* to the more general {sectioning}.
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How to add an extra level of sections with headings below \subsubsection
I have a document which requires many levels of sectioning. I have sections, subsections and subsubsections, but require one more level below that. I can't change the sections to be parts and move ...
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How do I ensure that figures appear in the section they're associated with?
Often floats may land quite a bit later in the document than the point they are created, sometimes after a section break.
Is there a way to force a new section to start on a new page, after any ...
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Force LaTeX image to appear in the section in which it's declared [duplicate]
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How do I ensure that figures appear in the section they're associated with?
Keeping tables/figures close to where they are mentioned
How can I force an image in a LaTeX ...
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Start new page with each section
I would like to start each section on a new page. Is adding the following to my preamble this the preferred method, or a hack?
\let\stdsection\section
\renewcommand\section{\newpage\stdsection}
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\par vs \paragraph
What is the difference between \par and \paragraph? I can skip a space between two paragraphs and have it retained on in the output on XeLaTeX. How is the effect different from using paragraph ...
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When is it appropriate to use \paragraph?
LaTeX provides seven sectioning commands:
\part
\chapter
\section
\subsection
\subsubsection
\paragraph
\subparagraph.
For most of the documents I write or come across, \subsubsection seems to be ...
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Avoiding page breaks shortly after section/subsection headings
By default, LaTeX allows a page break after the first two lines of paragraphs following section/subsection headings. How can I enlarge this minimum to, say, three lines or 10 percent of the value of \...
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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}
\label{sec:my-nice-...
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How do I control the spacing above a new \paragraph?
I'm using LaTeX using the article type documentclass. I haven't customized any of the LaTeX variables that determine lengths, such as \parindent, \topskip etc.
I want to control the amount of ...
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Why are Beamer subsubsections evil?
The Beamer manual claims, under "Guidelines for Creating Presentations":
Do not use subsubsections, they are evil.
Why? There's no further explanation. Is it simply because subsubsections are ...
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How to avoid splitting tables between sections
I have 5 tables and a section after them. After creation of an output file I have two tables on one page, then a section and last 3 tables on next page.
What I want to achieve is to put tables and ...
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Is it possible to automatically enumerate sentences in LaTeX?
1.0.1 Is it possible to automatically enumerate sentences in LaTeX?
2.0.1 I want to thoroughly work through and criticize a longer text. 2.0.2 To facilitate quoting, I would like to typeset the text ...
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Correct use of \paragraph titles?
How should I use \paragraph? I mean, If I want to put "Characteristics", should I put \paragraph{Characteristics} or \paragraph{Characteristics:}. Or is it up to me which one to use?
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paragraph style - how to force line break? \paragraph{} \\ - make paragraph a header?
I want to format paragraph to work as a regular title
\paragraph{title} text goes here
output of that is:
title text goes here
how can I change the output to force line break and use the usal ...
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LaTeX - Different section names in TOC from body
Sorry if this question already appears elsewhere, I couldn't find it.
Is there a way to label a section in the text but give it a different name in the table of contents?
I have very long section ...
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Centering \section* and adding them to the ToC
I'm using LaTeX and the book class and have one problem:
I want that my starred sections (only starred sections) appear in the center of the pages instead of the left side of the pages and also these ...
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How to make \subsection not appear in the ToC
How do I get a sub \subsection{title} I choose not not appear in the ToC and not interfere with the counting of the other \subsection's?
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Formatting a \paragraph to look like a \section
I'm writing a document that contains a rather deep tree of nested lists, and was wondering if how I would go about reformatting the \paragraph macro to format the text contained within it as a \...
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How can I put a line above a section heading and prevent a page break between?
We have designed a class for some journal. We wanted our section titles to be separated by a horizontal line from the previous line. Here is the code:
\def\section{%
\vskip 1.2\@bls%
\hrule ...
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What's the difference between \paragraph and \paragraph*?
Is there any difference between \paragraph{} and \paragraph*{}?
When it's used (if nothing has been modified before, i.e. like in this post: Paragraph header), there's no difference in the created ...
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Why does \color{blue} after \paragraph{…} color the paragraph title blue?
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{color}
\begin{document}
\paragraph{Why am I blue?}
{\color{blue} Only I am supposed to be blue!}
\end{document}
Output (plus my scribble):
Question: ...
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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}}}
\let\...
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Redefining commands in Latex (\section in particular)
A few days ago I asked a question about how to redefine the \section command to be able to write content just after the head of the section with no line breaking: Redefining \section command (I ...
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Should \paragraph be used only under \subsubsection?
Very simple question:
Is \paragraph supposed to be used only under \subsubsection or do you use it directly under \section or \subsection as well (e.g., if there are no further sub sections necessary)...
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Paragraph header
I want to include an indented, underlined, upper- and lowercase paragraph heading ending with a period in my document instead of using \subsubsection. Anyone who knows how I can define the command for ...
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Hyperref, Table of Contents and subsections
I have encountered a problem in latex that I have not been able to solve. While the hyperref package generates clickable links in the table of contents, it does not link any subsection to the actual ...
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Subtitle for a section
I'm using XeLaTeX to take notes in class, and I am using a new section for each lecture. Since the lectures have different teachers, I'd like a small italic subtitle for each \section.
I'm using the ...
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How can I format sections/subsections/etc. like nested lists?
I would like to format sections/subsections/etc. so that the entire body text of subsections is indented relative to the body text of the parent section as it is for nested lists, i.e.
1. Section ...
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How to get this fancier line to divide paragraphs?
Here I found lecture notes in which the author uses the following symbol when a certain thought is finished but no new chapter or similar follows.
Since the user doesn't share his source I code I ...
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Section headers in margins
I'm working on my resume in LyX and I would like my section headers to look like this. What should I write in the preamble to achieve this?
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Starting a proof with \paragraph
I would like to break a proof into paragraphs, but I don't seem to be able to start a proof with a paragraph.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\begin{document}
\begin{proof}
\paragraph{...
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Why does titlesec cause bizarre line breaks within \paragraph?
Consider the following example:
\documentclass[12pt,a6paper]{article}
%\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage[textwidth=79mm]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\paragraph{I guess we'll have to make a few trade-...
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Redefining sectioning commands
I'm trying to redefine the \subsubsection of the report class to behave like \paragraph and not have a linebreak after the title.
It's closely related to this question but I have no idea how to ...
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Why is \paragraph treated as level below \subsubsection?
Note: This is meant as a question about the historical development of LaTeX conventions, and how they influence Editor design, not as question about how to implement it differently.
One of my pet-...
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What under \subsubsection?
In a \subsubsection, I'm describing a software component, and I have to describe the classes it is composed of. I'm thinking to add some "titles" like "Class 1", "Class 2", but what's the best way to ...
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A zero \parskip and an unusual \paragraph result in overlapping paragraphs
I'm trying to debug a class provided by some journal. From times to times, the text appears completely garbled, or does not appear at all (I believe it is printed somewhere but probably out of the ...
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Subsubsection: remove the newline (like paragraph)
Using the article document class, how can one remove the newline at the end of a subsubsection title?
I am using \documentclass{article}; I do not currently use titlesec or any of the alternatives; I ...
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Why do I need to use \paragraph{} after a \section{} to get correct indenting whereas a blank line suffices for subsequent paragraphs?
I have noticed that whenever I start a new section, subsection, etc., I need to preface my text block with \paragraph{} to get correct indentation for the first paragraph. In subsequent paragraphs, ...
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Prevent a paragraph break after a section heading
In my .cls file for my thesis, I have defined \subsection as follows:
\newcommand{\subsection}[1]{%
\pagebreak[2]
\refstepcounter{subsection}
\addcontentsline{toc}{subsection}{
{\protect\...
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Make \section unaffected by \parfillskip
To avoid widow words at the last line of a paragraph, I adjust parfillskip:
\parfillskip 0pt plus 0.75\textwidth
While this gives nicer paragraphs, it also stretches section titles a little, as you ...
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scrreprt - add levels below \subparagraph
I have to write my thesis in (German) law and we usually use a very nested headline system.
I use scrreprt and have these levels:
(part)
chapter
section
subsection
subsubsection
paragraph
...
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How can protrusion in the headings of document divisions be fixed when using pdfLaTeX and titlesec?
How can protrusion in the headings of document divisions be fixed when using pdfLaTeX and titlesec?
In this answer I provide a tentative patch which allows character protrusion to work normally in ...
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Prevent widowing/orphaning of sections that can fit on one page
In my LaTeX document, I want to make it so that sections that can fit entirely on one page are automatically forced to start on the next page so that the section does not get widowed/orphaned. The ...
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Make sections begin on even-numbered pages in documentclass article
I've understood that it's easily solved in the book class. But is there a simple solution for how to do this in the article class?
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How to reverse section numbering for right-to-left languages?
I use XePersian to typeset Persian, but I don't want my section number mirrored! For example, section 3-1 is written as section 1-3, which is embaressing! So, I want my numbers back :-)
This issue is ...
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Creating a subsubparagraph
I want to create a subsubparagraph heading (in order to comply with phd guidlines for formatting). I've copied code from article.cls and just made everything 'lower'. However, when I do, although the ...
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How to make the numbering of subsections independent from the numbering of sections?
I am writing a constitution for a society. I would like to have the subsections numbered independently of the way that the sections are numbered, i.e:
Section 1
Subsection 1
Subsection 2
...
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How to make a rule under each section title with KOMA-Script?
This question is more or less a duplicate of this similarly named question, but is not exactly the same. I also want to place a horizontal rule below each section title (exactly like in the linked ...
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How to append code to a section?
In my scrartcl document I want to change the spacing between sections and the first paragraph. Since I am using the parskip package, the parskip is set to a non-zero value. The \section command uses \...
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numbering of \paragraph command
Due to the limitations of the number of subsubsections, subsubsubsections that we can use, I notice that I could replace that with the command \paragraph. Now when I use that, I am amazed by its ...
