Text Formatting ⇒ Title alignment

[Ranalli13]

Dear Latex Community,

I'm struggling formatting the titles alignment in latex.

I'm using the report document and i want to have some sections to be aligned to the left and some in the center.

I used the below package to define all the title alignment to the center.

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\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\section}{\bfseries\Large\centering}{\thesection.}{\hspace{0.1cm}}{} 

Now i want to know If it is possible to use this package and just add something to the sections that i want to be aligned to the left or what do to in order to have some sections on the left and some on the center?

Thanks in advance for the support!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hello,

as Bartman said in the other topic about the font issue, please always provide a minimal working example that contains the problem, because then we can test and fix or improve it. Otherwise ever reader has to type a whole document to provide a solution that's tested and works. I did this one time now, please next time show it with a small but complete code like this:

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\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\newcommand*{\myalignment}{\centering}
\titleformat{\section}{\bfseries\Large\myalignment}{\thesection.}{0.1cm}{} 
\begin{document}
\chapter{One}
\section{Centered heading}
\renewcommand*{\myalignment}{\raggedright}
\section{Left aligned heading}
\renewcommand*{\myalignment}{\centering}
\section{Another centered heading}
\end{document}

Here you can see how one may do it as one possible way. By the way I replaced \hspace{0.1cm} by 0.1cm since at that point a length value is expected, not a space command.

You can see an advantage of a complete code example here: one can edit and compile it right here in the forum by clicking the "Run LaTeX here" button. So one can run LaTeX for testing the code even on a phone. Code is marked by selectin it and clicking the "Code" button, when editing a post here.

Stefan

[Ranalli13]

Dear Stefan,

Thanks for the support. My problem is solved.

I will not forget to insert a minimal working example next time.

All the best.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Yes, it's incredibly easy to fix a problem when the code is here. I can simply edit the code and run it right here, to see if it an issue can be solved in a way.

See you next time when a question arrises.

Stefan