Text Formatting ⇒ Format Section and Subsection Headings

[LaTeXUser54]

Are there any packages or option commands I can use to format section and subsection headings? I'd like the section headings to be bold and larger while I'd like the subsection headings on a seperate line than the text. Currently, my document typesets like so:

Section [in center]

Subsection text text text text ...........

My code consists of:
\begin{section}\\
\begin{subsection}\\
text

I'm using TexShop and a document class of amsart.

Thanks.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I wonder why you use amsart but change the layout. If it's for an AMS journal, the layout should not be changed, if it's not for AMS publishing, I would use a standard class, not that specialized class.

For customizing the headings, I recommend to use the titlesec package.

My code consists of:
\begin{section}\\
\begin{subsection}\\

These don't are environments. Write instead:

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\section{title}
\subsection{title}

Stefan

[LaTeXUser54]

Oops! Yeah, that's what I meant: \section{title} and \subsection{title}. The only reason that I'm using amsart is that I've only recently begun learning LaTeX and the book which taught me constantly made reference to amsart.

I'll have to try the titlesec package. Thanks.