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Ordinal numbers in chapter number
I suggest you employ the machinery of the fmtcount package to achieve your formatting goal for chapter numbers.
How to "decorate" the chapter header further is a topic best left to another ...
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Add circled letters in titles
I'd avoid code duplication: your commands can be defined in terms of a two-argument command, that supplies the needed TikZ instructions and can be made into something different when typesetting the ...
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How to start at Part 0 in LaTeX?
If you're using the article document class, part-level headers are numbered with uppercase-Roman numerals: I, II, III, etc. Because the ancient Romans didn't know about the number "0", there'...
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What is this symbol in LaTeX? And where do I get it?
I used only PDF primitive operations to create the symbol. \pdfliteral primitive from pdftex is used. We need not TikZ.
The symbol: \pdfliteral{q 1 0 0 .8 5 0 cm
0 0 m 20 10 40 10 50 0 c 60 -10 80 -...
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Add circled letters in titles
You need to be cautions when using macros inside section titles, because these titles will appear at several other places in the document, such as in PDF bookmarks or in the page headers or footers.
...
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Why does \renewcommand{ ... }{ ... } not work with \section (or \subsection)?
\section* is \section * the command looks for a * it is not part of the name, so you have programmed a non terminating loop
\section -> \section* -> \section** ->...
eventually you have ...
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`{` in the definition of a macro?
Strange as it may seem, there are times when TeX isn't the answer.
Given an original document
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\section*{\huge CHAPTER 1.\\ Introduction}
\addcontentsline{toc}...
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How to remove "0" from numbers of paragraphs when they are not in subsubsection
The code given below does what the OP wants.
I can't help but remark that it's decidedly poor and sloppy typographic practice to skip subsubsection-level headers when also using paragraph-level ...
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Amsart: Section and subsection titles not formatted properly
The amsart class is not compatible with
authblock
titlesec
Remove them and the related commands.
The class typesets the keywords as a footnote to the first page. You might want to set them ...
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Latex different appendix section label
I suggest you insert the instruction
\renewcommand\thesection{F.\arabic{section}}
immediately before the first \section directive following the \appendix directive.
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\...
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Remove one empty page between subsection and subsubsection
This is a false problem.
LaTeX will never break a page just after a section header and you have
\subsection{FRP laminate}
It has three main types of GFRP, CFRP, and AFRP.
\subsubsection{Near Surface ...
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Formatting of displayed section numbers
I think that what you want is to define a counter called, say, block, and "tie" the section counter (that's the counter that's stepped each time the \section macro is executed) to the block ...
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Centering headers
The ncc class has its own method.
\documentclass[11pt]{ncc}
\usepackage{lipsum} % for mock text
\TitleBeforeAuthor
\sectionstyle{center}
\indentaftersection
\begin{document}
\title{Test}
\author{...
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Left align the title of sections and subsections
You need to allocate a fixed amount of space for the (sub)section counter typesetting. Here I chose 40pt; however, if your section or subsection numbering extend into double digits, you may need to ...
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Changing the first argument of l@chapter
The chapter number is printed in the \@chapter command, not in the \l@chapter command. So you need to patch both commands to do what you want without using one of the TOC packages:
\documentclass{...
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How can I use titlesec to put a tcolorbox around a section title?
You may want to use load the tcolorbox packge with the explicit option, which allows you to use #1 as placeholder for the section title in the defintion of the \section command. Also, I think the ...
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how to use `\texorpdfstring' correctly and properly
The command \texorpdfstring takes two arguments:
what should be typeset in the PDF, and
what should appear in the bookmark.
In your code \texorpdfstring{$\mu=0$} is the first argument is $\mu=0$ and ...
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Automatic Chapter or Section Title in Bold face and Small Caps
As already told in Will's answer to the question vou've linked, you should not use \sc, because this deprecated font command does also deactivate the previous \bfseries. Use \scshape instead:
\...
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Change font in section headings only
The two packages fight each other in how to define \sfdefault.
I suggest to first load sourcesanspro and make it \rmdefault. Then you can load montserrat.
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{book}
\...
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Warnings from hyperref whenever using \part{} with amsbook
hyperref is making the outline/bookmark text for PDF, This has to be plain text so hyperref removes/simplifies any tex constructs. Some commands it "knows" Sometimes it is given text ...
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How to count subsections and subsubsections without giving them a title
This looks like a list with the section number prefixed to the enumeration. Such adjustments to list parameters are provided by enumitem. Here's a mockup that matches your output:
\documentclass{...
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How can I make long section titles wrap all the way to the margin?
titleformat from titlesec is usually the way to format sections (link to documentation). In your case, change the default shape from [hang] to [block]. Extra spacing can be adjusted by \titlespacing* ...
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How can I make long section titles wrap all the way to the margin?
The KOMA-Script classes provide their own interface to configure headings. To not use hanging headings, just remove the \@hangfrom from the default definition of \sectionlinesformat (shown in the user ...
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Numeration layout
The "outer" question is set as a blank \item[] within an "inner" list. The following achieves that, with a newly-defined question environment and \subquestion macro (for context):
...
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Cannot add to "after" hook of sectioning command
This is documented in the section 2. Restrictions and Operational details, and particularly the example of cmd/section/after is given:
This boils down to how each command is implemented, and as the ...
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Page number missing specifically on second page and only that page
UPDATED In the file diku.sty use
\renewcommand*{\maketitle}{%Define the content of the frontpage
\newgeometry{margin=1.5cm}% here <<<<<<<<<<
\begin{titlepage} ...
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Modular option for tikz lecture heading
I'd probably make use of the titlesec pacakge and do something like this:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
\def\chaptername{...
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Section and subsection formatting
The academic-cv class defines its own sectioning commands, so you are right that these are what need to be changed. So the following additions need to be made to the class:
First, we make some ...
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Reduce whitespace between words in section headings
As it's a once-off hack, maybe just change the spacing, eg
\section{\spaceskip2pt Here is my section title}
or
\section{Here\thinspace is\thinspace my\thinspace section\thinspace title}
but don't ...
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How do you make whitespace the afterskip of a runin subsubsection in KOMA script?
The key takes a length you can include stretch and shrink components so that the white space helps justify the line
\documentclass{scrbook}
% Specifying titles
\RedeclareSectionCommand[runin=true,...
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