General ⇒ How to prevent a newline for a new section

[cool_divya_4u]

Folks,

Latex always leaves a line, and text goes on the line below when we create a new section or subsection or subsubsection. Is there a way to prevent this? That is, the text begins on the same line?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

LaTeX base classes provide \paragraph and \subaragraph, they produce a run-in heading, they don't cause a line break.
Or do you have to use \section and \subsection? Which document class do you use?

Stefan

[cool_divya_4u]

Thanks for your reply. I am using article class, and using \section, \subsection, and \subsubsections for the sections.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Try this in your preamble:

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\makeatletter
\renewcommand\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}%
                                   {-3.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
                                   {-1em}%
                                   {\normalfont\Large\bfseries}}
\renewcommand\subsection{\@startsection{subsection}{2}{\z@}%
                                     {-3.25ex\@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
                                     {-1em}%
                                     {\normalfont\large\bfseries}}
\renewcommand\subsubsection{\@startsection{subsubsection}{3}{\z@}%
                                     {-3.25ex\@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
                                     {-1em}%
                                     {\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}}
\makeatother

These are definitions like in the article class except they now produce a run-in heading.

Stefan

[localghost]

Less complicated when using the titlesec package.


Best regard and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[cool_divya_4u]

By the way, I am using titlesec package to reduce section title fontsize. Can I use the same package to prevent the lines as well? If so, do you mind letting me know?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

If you're already using titlesec, simply state the optional argument runin:

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\titleformat{\section}[runin]{...

Stefan