Text Formatting ⇒ Formatting of the Sub-paragraph Heading

[Toty]

Hi,

How can I change the formatting of a \subparagraph heading?

The standard formatting of the article document class is only a bold text (see working example below).

I would like to have it bold and italic, and embedded in the paragraph, as the example below


This is the subparagraph title. blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah vblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah vblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah vblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah vblah blah

I've tried to work with the titlesec pacakge but the documentation is very unclear and confusing.

working example

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\documentclass[a4paper]{article} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 

\begin{document}

\subparagraph{This is the subparagraph title.} blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah  blah blah blah blah vblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah  blah blah blah blah vblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah  blah blah blah blah vblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah  blah blah blah blah vblah blah

\end{document}

thanks

[localghost]

A Forum Search will for sure yield useful solutions by the titlesec package. And reading its manual is a good start.


Thorsten

[Toty]

Dear Thorsten,

I surely looked for the answer in the forum before posting my question. And as I mentioned in my question, I find the manual very confusing and not helpful

[localghost]

[…] And as I mentioned in my question, I find the manual very confusing and not helpful

Somehow I must have missed that. Nevertheless I can't share your concerns about the package manual. It has lots of examples and the user commands are described in detail. In this regard the manual is exemplary. But perhaps I only read it in another way.

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{lipsum}    % create dummy text

\titleformat*{\subparagraph}{\bfseries\itshape}

\begin{document}
  \subparagraph{This is the sub-paragraph title.}
    \lipsum[1]
\end{document}

Important Notes:

• The lipsum package has only been used to create the dummy text, thus is not part of the solution and can be dropped in the actual document.

[Toty]

Thanks for the help !

With this solution, however, I change the formatting of all \subparagraph{} headings.

Is there a solution with which I change the formatting of all the headings below a certain line in the document ?

[localghost]

[…] Is there a solution with which I change the formatting of all the headings below a certain line in the document ?

Due to typographical consistency it is not advisable to do that. Nevertheless you can use the \titleformat* command whre3ever you want (perhaps restricted by grouping).