Text Formatting ⇒ Space between section number and section title

[Murd]

Hello!

I'm currently trying to achieve the following text layout:

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It consists of the chapter, section, subsection (...) numbering being indented to the left, while the chapter, section, subsection (...) title being on one level to the text.

I already searched for a solution, but could not get it quite right. Here is what I already tried:

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\titleformat{\section}{\normalfont\Large\bfseries}{\thesection}{4pt}{}

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\renewcommand{\@seccntformat}[1]{\csname the#1\endcsname\ }

Both approaches just change the spacing between the number and the title, but not put them all on the same level.

Can anyone help me with that?

Thanks!
Murd

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Murd,

welcome to the forum!

With some settings by Gonzalo Medina (user gmedina here on latex.org):

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\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}

% adjust the indentation value as desired
\newlength\titleindent
\setlength\titleindent{2cm}

\titleformat{\section}
  {\sffamily\Large\bfseries}{\llap{\parbox{\titleindent}{\bfseries\thesection\hfill}}}{0em}{}
\titleformat{\subsection}
  {\sffamily\large}{\llap{\parbox{\titleindent}{\bfseries\thesubsection\hfill}}}{0em}{\bfseries}
\titleformat{\subsubsection}
  {\sffamily\normalsize}{\llap{\parbox{\titleindent}{\bfseries\thesubsubsection}}}{0em}{\bfseries}
\begin{document}

\section{Testdokument}

See the following sample.

\subsection{Projektphase1}

\blindtext

\subsubsection{Budgetplanung}

\blindtext
\end{document}

\llap puts the number in the box with the width of the indentation, left aligned, but zero box width, so it's pushed to the left.

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By the way, as I see you are writing in German, you are also welcome in our German partner forum TeXwelt.

Stefan

[Murd]

Thank you very much, Stefan! It works great!

Sure, I will check the german forum out as well.

[Murd]

I just noticed, that the title number seems to be a little bit lower than the title text. Is there a way to offset the number up a bit?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

We can fix it by adding for bottom alignment of the parbox:

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\titleformat{\section}
  {\sffamily\Large\bfseries}{\llap{\parbox[b]{\titleindent}{\bfseries\thesection\hfill}}}{0em}{}
\titleformat{\subsection}
  {\sffamily\large}{\llap{\parbox[b]{\titleindent}{\bfseries\thesubsection\hfill}}}{0em}{\bfseries}
\titleformat{\subsubsection}
  {\sffamily\normalsize}{\llap{\parbox[b]{\titleindent}{\bfseries\thesubsubsection}}}{0em}{\bfseries}

Stefan