Text Formatting ⇒ statute (legal document) format

[bandua83]

Hi, I'm new with LaTeX and I need help. I'm transcribing into latex a statute for an association. It's a defined formmat and I'm not able to fully reproduce it. It's like this:

..........................
Chapter I - About the association

1.º Article Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. a) Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. b) Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

2.º Article Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
* consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
* Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
...
Chapter 2 - About the President
...........................

I've defined the document as a book. I've no problems with inside paragraph enumerations, neither with enumerations via bullets. Mu problem is with "sections", I want to have automatic numbering and subsection doesn't fit my needs (there's no line jump between section title and text).

Right now I got this:

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documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{book}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[galician]{babel}
\usepackage{paralist}

\title{bla bla bla}
\author{whatever}
\date{1 de Novembro de 2009}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\frontmatter
bla bla bla. 

\mainmatter
\chapter*{Da asociación en xeral}

\textbf{\itshape Artigo}\arabic{counter}{\itshape.º}
\begin{inparaenum}[\itshape a\upshape)]
 \item Constitúese unha asociación sen ánimo de lucro das previstas na Lei orgánica 1/2002, do 22 de marzo, reguladora do dereito de asociación. ...
 \item A asociación rexerase polos ditos estatutos, pola Lei orgánica 1/2002, do 22 de marzo e  demais lexislación existente en materia de asociacións que lle sexa aplicable.
\end{inparaenum}
...
\textbf{\itshape Artigo 5.º}Son fins principais da asociación:
\begin{enumerate}
 \item A promoción e difusión do software libre,....
 ...
 \item Colaborar con outras entidades que compartan os seus fins.
\end{enumerate}

suggestions?

[gmedina]

Hi,

to easily customise the sectional headings, take a look at the titlesec package

[meho_r]

You may give titlesec package a try. Just to give you an idea, here's an example (not most elegant solution, especially if you need a TOC, but can serve as starting point towards getting better solutions):

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{book}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[galician]{babel}
\usepackage{paralist}

\usepackage{titlesec}

\titleformat{\chapter}{}{}{0pt}{Chapter \thechapter\ -- }

\titleformat{\section}[runin]{\itshape\bfseries}{\thesection.° Article}{0pt}{}

\titlespacing{\chapter}{0pt}{16pt}{16pt}

\titlespacing{\section}{0pt}{12pt}{6pt}

\renewcommand{\thesection}{\arabic{section}}


\title{bla bla bla}
\author{whatever}
\date{1 de Novembro de 2009}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\frontmatter
bla bla bla. 

\mainmatter
\chapter{Da asociación en xeral}

\section{}

\begin{inparaenum}[\itshape a\upshape)]
\item Constitúese unha asociación sen ánimo de lucro das previstas na Lei orgánica 1/2002, do 22 de marzo, reguladora do dereito de asociación. ...
\item A asociación rexerase polos ditos estatutos, pola Lei orgánica 1/2002, do 22 de marzo e  demais lexislación existente en materia de asociacións que lle sexa aplicable.
\end{inparaenum}
...
\section{}
Son fins principais da asociación:
\begin{enumerate}
\item A promoción e difusión do software libre,....
...
\item Colaborar con outras entidades que compartan os seus fins.
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

EDIT: Hehe, gmedina was faster

[bandua83]

Thanks!

I'm learning LaTeX on the fly, btw, and this was hepful)