Document Classes ⇒ Modifying Section titles using titlesec/titletoc Package

[centurion555]

I am trying to produce Section titles with numbers. I also want a decimal point after the number in Section titles. I used these commands in
preamble of my document.

\titlelabel{\thetitle.\quad} %Why this is not working when using \titleformat commands in next line
\titleformat{\section}{\bf}{\thesection}{1em}{}
\titlespacing{\section}{0pt}{12pt}{6pt}

Problem 1:

The first command \titlelabel.... produces the required decimal points but it doesn't work when I use the second command \titleformat......
please help me to both command works at the same time.

Problem 2:

The third command above shows my required spacing before and after the paragraph. In one of my sections I am producing text in two columns using multicol package with commands:

\section*{Acknowledgements}
\begin{multicols}{2}
We Acknowledge this ..........text here............
\end{multicols}

I am getting extra space (than defined by \titlespacing above) between section heading "Acknowledgement" and the text "We Acknowlege........" . I think this extra space is coming from the multicol package. I tried to redefined spacing with \titlespacing
before this section but it doesn't help.

Thanks for your kind suggestion/hint
Regards
Nadeem

[gmedina]

Hi Nadeem,

the code below contains some suggestions to help you solve your problems:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{lipsum}%just to generate some text

\titleformat{\section}{\bfseries}{\thesection.}{1em}{}
\titlespacing{\section}{0pt}{12pt}{6pt}

\begin{document}

\section*{Acknowledgements}
\vspace*{-1em}
\begin{multicols}{2}
  \lipsum[1-3]
\end{multicols}

\section{Test section one}
\lipsum[1-5]

\section{Test section two}
\lipsum[1-5]

\end{document}

Notice the dot "." that goes after \thesection in the third argument of \titleformat. To correct the issue with the vertical spacing between the heading and the text in the "Acknowledgements" section, you can use \vspace* as suggested.

[centurion555]

Hi gmedina,
You are great. It worked without any problem.
Thanks, Nadeem