Text Formatting ⇒ Make custom title

[Hermano]

Dear all,

This is maybe a stupid question but I can not find how to define a preamble for my own (custom) title "\boldtitle". I can not use \maketitle as this gives me errors. It will be used as a sort of section but without numbering.

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\newcommand\boldtitle{?????}

\begin{document}

\boldtitle{[b]This is my title[/b]}

\end{document}

I want the title in bold that is left aligned an that has a defined white space before and after.

Thanks!

[cgnieder]

This is maybe a stupid question but I can not find how to define a preamble for my own (custom) title "\boldtitle". I can not use \maketitle as this gives me errors. It will be used as a sort of section but without numbering.

I don't really understand: do you want to customize the title that is made by \title, \author and \maketitle or do you want an unnumbered section (\section*{I'm not numbered})?

Regards

[Hermano]

I don't want to customize the title made by \title etc.
I want to create my own "title/heading" for a section which is not numbered and also not in the table of contents.

I can make it easily like:

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Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.  \\

\noindent{\textbf{This is my title}} \\

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. 

But as I will use this format for a "title" many times, I want to create a preamble named "\boldtitle" such it looks like:

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\boldtitle{This is my title}

In this preamable, I want to define the spacings before and after the title, bold text, not numbered, left aligned and not in taken into account for the table of contents.

[cgnieder]

I want to create my own "title/heading" for a section which is not numbered and also not in the table of contents.

There's already a command for this: the starred version of \section:

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\section*{Unnumbered section that will not appear in the ToC}

BTW: you shouldn't use \\ to terminate a paragraph. An empty line in the source suffices. \\ does not terminate a paragraph, anyway, but ends a line, which is a different thing.

Regards

[Hermano]

Dear cgnieder,

Thanks for the answer!
However, using \section*{} will make the fontsize bigger than the rest of my text. Is there a way to specify the size once for whole my document for the \section*{} command in such a way it doesn't influence the fontsize of the \section{} command?

[cgnieder]

You could adapt the definition of \section from article.cls. The code below defines a macro \mycustomhead which works exactly like \section except that it uses \normalsize instead of \large. I also defined a second command \myhead that simply calls the starred variant of \mycustomhead in order to get an unnumbered heading without entry in the ToC:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\makeatletter
\newcommand\mycustomhead{%
  \@startsection{section}{1}{\z@}%
  {-3.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
  {2.3ex \@plus.2ex}%
  {\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}}
\newcommand\myhead[1]{\mycustomhead*{#1}}
\makeatother

\usepackage{lipsum}% dummy text

\begin{document}

\section{test}
\lipsum[1]

\myhead{custom head}
\lipsum[1]

\end{document}

Regards

[Hermano]

Thanks cgnieder for your clear answer! This solved mu problem!

Thanks