Text Formatting ⇒ Custom Formatting for Section Heading

[skwateur]

Hello guys,

I'm having some difficulties to make something like that :

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I've been trying many things but I do not get anything like this...

Any ideas ?

Thanks

[cgnieder]

On first thought I'd guess it should be doable using the titlesec package.

Regards

[cgnieder]

Here is a suggestion:

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{titlesec}
% \titleformat{command}[form]{layout}{label-layout}{skip}{before-code}[after-code]

\renewcommand*\thesection{\arabic{section}.}

\newcommand\secformat[1]{%
  \huge\colorbox{gray}{\parbox{\dimexpr\linewidth-6pt}{\bfseries\color{white}\thesection~#1}}} 
\titleformat{\section}[block]{\normalfont\rmfamily}{}{0pt}{\secformat}

\usepackage{kantlipsum}% for some sample text
\begin{document}

\section{Introduction}
\kant[1-3]

\end{document}

Regards

PS: I'm sure I'm missing something obvious: does anybody know why \linewidth is 6pt too wide in the example above?

[localghost]

[…] PS: I'm sure I'm missing something obvious: does anybody know why \linewidth is 6pt too wide in the example above?

You have to take the length \fboxsep (default value 3pt) into account. It appears two times here so the width of your \parbox should be \dimexpr\linewidth-2\fboxsep.


Thorsten

[cgnieder]

You have to take the length \fboxsep (default value 3pt) into account.

Of course! I feel stupid now ...

Thanks

[skwateur]

Thanks a lot guys, I'll try that when I'm done with the footer/margin problem...

[skwateur]

Wow very nice !

Is there anyway to avoid this style for \tableofcontent ?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You could use \ifthesection, which is described in the titlesec manual.

Stefan

[skwateur]

Hello again,

I've been trying to use \ifthesection but I still can't make it.
Could you please post a small sample showing how to use \ifthesection please ?