General ⇒ changing fontsize of chapter or section

[mamun4105]

hi there!

I am a new user in this forum. I want to know that how can I change font size of a chapter of section. I've tried \section{\fontsize{22}{30} Section title}. But there is two problems:

1. The font size of this section in table of contents changed.
2. The font size of section numeral did not change.


Please help

Thank you

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Saleh Al - Mamun

[localghost]

Perhaps the titlesec package will do the trick.


Best regards
Thorsten

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Saleh Al - Mamun,

welcome to the LaTeX Community Forum!

You did not mention the document class you are using. Some document classes like KOMA classes and the memoir class provide specific commands for changing the fonts of chapter and section names. If you use a standard LaTeX class like report or book then the titlesec package mentioned by Thorsten should be easier than to redefine the class macros, although there is some documentation to read.

Without titlesec you could redefine \section with \@startsection, here is a short description with example: how to change the appearance of the entire section.

By the way, when I use \fontsize I write \selectfont after it. And in general for different settings of chapter or section titles in document and table of contents you could use the optional parameter for \chapter or \section like \section[toc entry]{title} (see sectioning).

Stefan