General ⇒ Modifying paragraph heading formatting

[avi9526]

Hi,
I need to get paragraph looks like simple text.
For now its look like:
"This is paragraph Blabla bla blablabla."
but I need:
"This is paragraph. Blabla bla blablabla."

I try to use titlesec package (I really bad understand what I do )

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\titleformat{\paragraph}[hang]{\normalfont\normalsize}{\theparagraph.}{1em}{}
\titlespacing*{\paragraph}{0pt}{3.25ex plus 1ex minus .2ex}{1em}

but it's doesn't help.

How to solve this trouble? Thanks!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

I try to use titlesec package (I really bad understand what I do )

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\titleformat{\paragraph}[hang]{\normalfont\normalsize}{\theparagraph.}{1em}{}
\titlespacing*{\paragraph}{0pt}{3.25ex plus 1ex minus .2ex}{1em}

but it's doesn't help.

where did you get that from? The titlesec manual helps understanding what to do. The appendix supports an easy start, as it provides titlesec settings for the default layout of the standard classes. You could simply copy and change that as desired. For example:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\paragraph}[runin]{\normalfont\normalsize}{\theparagraph}{1em}{}
\titlespacing*{\paragraph}{0pt}{3.25ex plus 1ex minus .2ex}{\the\fontdimen2\font}
\begin{document}
\paragraph{This is a paragraph} with some text.
\end{document}

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The differences to the standard headings are

• no \bfseries
• spacing after heading changed from 1em to \the\fontdimen2\font, which means an interword space.

Stefan

[avi9526]

Wow.
But is there any way to get dot direct after paragraph title?
"This is a paragraph title. This is some text."

Thanks!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Yes, there's an optional argument of \titleformat for code which comes after the heading. You could write the dot there. Also the space after the run-in heading could be made there, so we remove the complicated \the\fontdimen2\font from \titlespacing.

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\titleformat{\paragraph}[runin]{\normalfont\normalsize}{\theparagraph}{1em}{}[. \mbox{}]
\titlespacing*{\paragraph}{0pt}{3.25ex plus 1ex minus .2ex}{0pt}

I added an empty box with \mbox to ensure that the space would be made.

Stefan