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Figured out a solution for it using titlesec -- had to make sure the titleformat was set to block.


\titleformat{\section}[block]{\centering\large\bfseries}{\thetitle}{.5em}{}[\vspace{-2em}\rule{\titlewidth}{1pt}]


To make \titlewidth work, don't be like me -- remember to load the package with ...

Works like a charm. Thanks!

\titlewidth is one of the first things I tried, but it seems to return 0 -- the \rule ends up not drawing at all.

Hello,

This is perhaps a simple question -- I'm trying to calculate the width of a section title so that I can make a \rule of the appropriate width. I'm using titlesec, and tried doing:


\newlength{\secwid}
\settowidth{\secwid}{\sectiontitle}


But the width ends up as 0. I can use \thesection ...

Managed to figure out my problem using titletoc. It's a little hacky, as I've used inflexible widths to accommodate the word 'Figure', but maybe someone with the same problem will find this useful.

\usepackage{titletoc}
\titlecontents{figure} [3.8em]
{}
{Figure \hspace{3em} \contentslabel{2 ...

I've tried using titlesec, but it fusses about horizontal mode whenever a \section is called. Been trying to find out what that means. I'll see if I can work up a working example.

Sadly, the template is no longer being maintained. The University hasn't posted an official one, because they decided that not enough students attempted to use LaTeX. Chicken/Egg Scenario?

It's available at http://ivan.research.ucf.edu/UCF_thesis ... hesis.html

Hello,

I'm trying to put an underline on a section title. The university's template uses the following section of code to change the headers, but also requires them to be underlined:
\def\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}{-7ex }
{ 3.5ex }{\centering\large\bfseries\TitleHyphenation ...

Hello,

Is there a relatively newbie-friendly way of prepending a word such as "Figure" or "Table" to the label provided in LoF or LoT? Caveat: I can't use tocloft, as it dorks up the university template I'm using.