Text Formatting ⇒ Change Font Size of Headings

[Etsijä]

I'm writing my thesis using currently the doc. class "report (KOMA-script)", but I think my question is more general and doesn't apply only to that class, that's why I'm asking it here:

Is there any "easy" way to change the font size of the Chapter, Section and Subsection titles, by redefining/adding something to their current definition in a doc. class?

My school requires me to write all Chapter headings with 14pt font, and all subsequent (section, subsection) headings with 12pt font, and I cannot currently find a way to change them to those explicite sizes (or their LaTeX equivalents \normalsize and \large, in my case).

Sorry if there is a trivial way, but I'm still very new to LyX and this .layout thingy...

[localghost]

The font sizes of headings depend on the font size given to the document class and in KOMA Script can be influenced very easy. The switches for the font size also depend on that. For example headings=small in the options for the document class with a default font size of 11pt comes pretty close to the demands of your school, but isn't exactly what they want. Unfortunately the English version of the KOMA Script user guide doesn't keep up with current development, thus doesn't record that.

But LaTeX allows with the low level \fontsize command to select a specific size with an according skip. Applied to headings this would be a job for the titlesec package to get the exact sizes according to the demands of your school.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[Etsijä]

Thank you, Thorsten, titlesec package looks like exactly the one I need, have to look at that!

And thanks for the welcoming - I used LaTeX extensively in my university days, but it's 15 years now since I've used it, and I'm new to LyX, so takes a bit of time to get up and going.

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Update: I was able to configure the headings just the way my school wants in 10 minutes, using the titlesec package - so thanks again for a really good tip, Thorsten