## LaTeX forum ⇒ Text Formatting ⇒ Space between section number and section title

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Murd
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Joined: Wed Aug 29, 2018 3:44 pm

### Space between section number and section title

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:

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

1. \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

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Stefan Kottwitz
Posts: 9434
Joined: Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:44 pm
Hi Murd,

welcome to the forum!

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

1. \documentclass{scrartcl}
2. \usepackage{titlesec}
3. \usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
4. \usepackage{blindtext}
5.
6. % adjust the indentation value as desired
7. \newlength\titleindent
8. \setlength\titleindent{2cm}
9.
10. \titleformat{\section}
11. {\sffamily\Large\bfseries}{\llap{\parbox{\titleindent}{\bfseries\thesection\hfill}}}{0em}{}
12. \titleformat{\subsection}
13. {\sffamily\large}{\llap{\parbox{\titleindent}{\bfseries\thesubsection\hfill}}}{0em}{\bfseries}
14. \titleformat{\subsubsection}
15. {\sffamily\normalsize}{\llap{\parbox{\titleindent}{\bfseries\thesubsubsection}}}{0em}{\bfseries}
16. \begin{document}
17.
18. \section{Testdokument}
19.
20. See the following sample.
21.
22. \subsection{Projektphase1}
23.
24. \blindtext
25.
26. \subsubsection{Budgetplanung}
27.
28. \blindtext
29. \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
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Joined: Wed Aug 29, 2018 3:44 pm
Thank you very much, Stefan! It works great!

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

Murd
Posts: 5
Joined: Wed Aug 29, 2018 3:44 pm
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
Posts: 9434
Joined: Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:44 pm
We can fix it by adding [b] for bottom alignment of the parbox:

1. \titleformat{\section}
2. {\sffamily\Large\bfseries}{\llap{\parbox[b]{\titleindent}{\bfseries\thesection\hfill}}}{0em}{}
3. \titleformat{\subsection}
4. {\sffamily\large}{\llap{\parbox[b]{\titleindent}{\bfseries\thesubsection\hfill}}}{0em}{\bfseries}
5. \titleformat{\subsubsection}
6. {\sffamily\normalsize}{\llap{\parbox[b]{\titleindent}{\bfseries\thesubsubsection}}}{0em}{\bfseries}

Stefan