Text Formatting ⇒ Spacing sections with horizontal thick lines

[sman]

Hallo,

I do like to have my sections formatted with a foregoing thick horizontal line, let's say color grey, thickness 2mm. It should appear about 2cm after the text of the last section ended. The section Name should appear as usual, in this case 1cm below my grey line. The line width should be textwidth exactly.

For the solution i expect something like

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\renewcommand{\section}{foregoing grey thick line}
...
\begin{document}
Here is the line!
\section{foo}
text
Here is the line!
\section{bar}
text
\end{document}

I am using the following document class

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{scrreprt}

Can someone help me with that issue please?
Thank you very much
Martin

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Martin,

you could use the titlesec package, have a look at its documentation.

Stefan

[sman]

Thank you,

I managed to find a solution for the issue with the titlesec and color packages

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\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{color}

The Section in my document are now spaced by the following definition in the preamble:

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\titleformat{\section}
    { \vspace{1em}
      \color{gray}{0.8}\titlerule[2pt]\color{black}
      \vspace{1.5em}
      \Large\bfseries }
    { \thesection. }
    { 0.5em }
    { \vspace{0.5em} }

* New problem:

I also tried to format my chapters in a smiliar manner using titlesec, but I am not able to fulfil my wishes of a grey box of 4cm height including the following chapter style:

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\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
    { \color{black}
      \bfseries
      \Huge }
    { \filleft
      \normalfont
      \small
      \MakeUppercase{\chaptertitlename}
      \ \thechapter }
    { 0em }
    { \filright }

How can I span a grey box around the whole chapter heading? The [frame] shape in the titlesec manual only creates a white box with a black border...