Page Layout ⇒ Reduce horizontal space between section title and numbering

[larschrjensen]

Hi,

Is it possible to reduce the horizontal space between the section title and section numbering? My section header looks like this:

1 Header

and I'd like something like this:

1. Header

Best regards,
Lars

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Lars,

welcome to the board!

The answer depends on the document class you are using. Which one is it?

Stefan

[larschrjensen]

Thank you Stefan,

The documentclass I use is the report class.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

With the titlesec package:

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\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\section}
  {\normalfont\Large\bfseries}{\thesection}{0.2em}{}
\begin{document}
\chapter{One}
\section{Header}
\end{document}

Customize the 0.2em if you like, originally it's 1em.

Stefan

[larschrjensen]

Thank you very much!

Texmaker marks \titleformat and \thesection as unrecognized commands but it works wonderfully.

Is there any way to do the same with the table of contents? I have called it by invoking \tableofcontents ?

Best regards,
Lars

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Texmaker marks \titleformat and \thesection as unrecognized commands but it works wonderfully.

Texmaker doesn't know all LaTeX packages, and titlesec is an extension package, so that's normal.

Is there any way to do the same with the table of contents? I have called it by invoking \tableofcontents?

Probably with titletoc, which is a companion to titlesec for designing the table of contents. Or use tocloft.

Stefan

[larschrjensen]

Thank you very much for your help. It was very helpful.

Best regards,
Lars

[erwann]

With the titlesec package:

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\titleformat{\section}
  {\normalfont\Large\bfseries}{\thesection}{0.2em}{}

Customize the 0.2em if you like, originally it's 1em.

Stefan

Is an empty field = default? And also, where are the default values to be found?

[erwann]

Answer to m/s: no, an empty field != package's default. I tried. Would it be such a hardship to wrap this with a keyval command to be able to change only a subset of the parameters?

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\titleformat{〈command 〉}[〈shape〉]{〈format〉}{〈label 〉}{〈sep〉}{〈before-code〉}[〈after-code〉]

Manual: https://mirror.las.iastate.edu/tex-arch ... tlesec.pdf