General ⇒ Change the color of linerule

[davefulton]

Dear LaTeX gurus,

I was wondering if anybody could help me change the color/thickness of a section underline.
I have used \usepackage{titlesec}

and have used the code

\titleformat{\section}{\Large\raggedright}{}{0em}{}[\titlerule]
%Tweak the top margin
\addtolength{\voffset}{-1.3cm}

How do I change the color/thickness?

I tried

\titleformat{\section}{\Large\raggedright}{}{0em}{}[\titlerule[0.8pt]
]

From what it says in literature but to no avail. It doesn't compile!

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[gmedina]

Hi,

Try something along these lines:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{titlesec}

\titleformat{\section}
  {\Large\raggedright}
  {}{0em}{}[{\color{red}\titlerule[8pt]}]

\begin{document}

\section{Test section}

\end{document}

As you can see, the optional argument of \titlerule controls the height of the rule; the color can be changed locally with the \color command

[davefulton]

You are a star! Thank you. While I've got your attention. I am using a piece of code

\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
\setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Fontin Sans}
\setsansfont[Scale=MatchLowercase,Mapping=tex-text]{Gill Sans}
\setmonofont[Scale=MatchLowercase]{Andale Mono}

where I can select the font from my local library. However when I use certain fonts it doesn't produce the Small Caps style from the \sc declaration. The Small Caps fonts are there as I have checked them against the ones that work. Is there any reason you can think of off the top of your head?

Thank you so much for your help

[frabjous]

That's XeLaTeX code for fontspec. You should be clear you're using XeLaTeX.

I think sometimes fontspec has trouble identifying the right small caps font to use; probably has something to do with the fonts themselves. But fontspec has commands for specifying the exact font to use. I don't have Andale Mono or Gill Sans installed right now, but for Fontin Sans, the following works for me:

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\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
\setromanfont[SmallCapsFont={Fontin Sans Small Caps}]{Fontin Sans}
\begin{document}

This is \textsc{small caps}.

\end{document}

(You don't need to repeat Mapping=tex-text if you're already set it to default to that...)

But if we're going to continue on this line, we should start a new thread with an appropriate subject line.