Text Formatting ⇒ \section formating question

[huuep]

how do i use \section{} so that i can put the number in the middle, have an output like this:

Article 1 - Stuff

where the 1 is auto-numbered, instead of

1 Article - Stuff

if i do \section{Article - Stuff}

thanks!
danny

[huuep]

perhaps this question is more clear.

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/section{article - first}
/section{article - second}
/section{article - third}

will output:
1 article - first
2 article -second
3 article - third

how do i write it so that i get:
article 1 - first
article 2 - second
article 3 - third

thanks!
danny

[gmedina]

Hi,

your example suggest that the word "article" will be constant in the title, so to achieve something like

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article 1 - first
article 2 - second
article 3 - third

you need only to make some changes to the sections format (with the help of the titlesec package) and then simply use

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\section{first}
\section{second}
\section{third}

in your document. The following simple example illustrates this approach:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{titlesec}

\titleformat{\section}
  {\normalfont\Large\bfseries}{article\space\thesection\space--\space}{0pt}{}
\titlespacing*{\section}
  {0pt}{3.5ex plus 1ex minus .2ex}{2.3ex plus .2ex}

\begin{document}

\section{first}

\section{second}

\section{third}

\end{document}

[huuep]

awesome, thanks very much!
-danny