Text Formatting ⇒ titlesec | Prefix for Section Heading

[Amazon]

I'm writing a document where I have until now used \section for defining 'chapters' of my document.

I would like the output to be "Section 1, (Title)" instead of "1 (Title)" which is the default for \section. Also the ToC should display in the same way, "Chapter 1, (Title)". Lower headings levels should not be affected.

I have heard that using titlesec is a way to accomplish this, but I haven't been successful yet. Please help me.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

I have heard that using titlesec is a way to accomplish this

that's correct!

but I haven't been successful yet

Did you already read the titlesec documentation? What did you try?

Stefan

[Amazon]

Yes I've read the documentation, I find it very poor. The manual does a bad job at explaining the different parts and their function of the commands. I have tried to even do a simple thing like just adding a dot after the section number without luck.

By the way I think that titlesec alone won't affect the ToC? Is titletoc needed?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

For the TOC, I know that tocloft does a good job and that it's easy to insert Chapter into the TOC entries.

I think the mentioned documentation of titlesec is especially good because it provides the commands for the standard headings layout in its appendix. So it's really easy to make small changes - copy and paste the code lines from the appendix and modify slightly. Did you see this appendix?

Stefan

[Amazon]

Ok, I've almost done it. The only issue is that the "label" isn't the same size as it should be.

the code:

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\titleformat{\section}{\bfseries}{Section \thesection, }{0em}{}

result: (left: before, right: after)

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How do I make it appear in the correct size?

[localghost]

As the titlesec manual describes in Section 9.2 for the default formatting of the headings in the standard classes, you should add \Large as one command to change font sizes.

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\titleformat{\section}{\normalfont\Large\bfseries}{Section \thesection,}{1em}{}

Thorsten

[Amazon]

Thank you Thorsten.