Text Formatting ⇒ Justify Headings to left Side

[mavericky99]

can anyone help me making the section, subsection and subsubsections in thesis left justified. Actually they are centered. I want them to be left aligned...I want the chapter names to be center aligned and Section names left aligned.

[localghost]

What you want should be the default behaviour. Show with a minimal example what is going wrong. If you are using a document class that is not listed on CTAN (please check that before), attach it to your next post by upload to the forum server.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You could use the titlesec package. Or use features of the document class. However, we only can help you if you would at least tell us the name of that class.

Stefan

[mavericky99]

I want my thesis to look like the one in the picture. Please help me left align the sections in LaTeX.

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\documentclass[12pt,a4]{thesis}
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\usepackage[titletoc]{appendix}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{ucs}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{4}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{4}

\sectionfont{\normalsize\sc\leftmark}
	 
\linespread{1.3}
\normalsize{}

\begin{document}
\chapter{\textbf{INTRODUCTION AND PRELIMINARIES}}

\section{\textbf{INTRODUCTION}}
   
     I want only the introduction section left justified...and chapters centered as above...

\section{\textbf{PRELIMS}}
 
Left justification as shown in figure....

\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

With the thesis.cls class I know, it can easily be done by adding the nocenter option:

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\documentclass[12pt,a4,nocenter]{thesis}

Stefan

[localghost]

Stefan's solution would align all headings to the left. And as he already suggested earlier, you can use the titlesec package to get the desired output. Here shown with a standard class.

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,english]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage[up,bf,raggedright]{titlesec}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\titleformat{\chapter}{\filcenter\normalfont\huge\bfseries}{\thechapter.}{20pt}{\huge}
\titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{50pt}{20pt}

\begin{document}
  \blinddocument
\end{document}

For details refer to the package manual.

The blindtext package is not part of the solution, It has only been used to create dummy text. In this context you might also drop the babel package and its (global) language option.

[mavericky99]

But the problem is I donot want the chapter headings to shift left...I only want the section and subsection headings to shift left...is there a way????

[mavericky99]

respected sir,

when ever I do what u have said I am getting an error. The log file with the error is attached.

[mavericky99]

also sir using \documentclass{12pt, nocenter} has cleared my section headings problem but want u to help me allign the chapter names in the center as I have shown in the figure...I would be greatfull if u give me precise code.....

[localghost]

The titlesec package and the thesis class seem to be incompatible. Is there a special reason why you use this class? If not, think about using another one.