beamersectioningtable of contents
This guide explains how to produce dynamic headers, where
the current section is highlighted.
But how can I control the color used for highlighting?
(to save space I've set the header's font size to a small value, so I would
like to add some contrast to make it more clear in what section
of the talk we are).
The best way to have total control over the sectioning is the titlesec package. Here's a quick version of the standard MSWord sectioning for the first three levels. To control colours, you need the xcolor package.
If you are using different fonts for different section levels (not recommended) you should use fontspec's \newfontfamily command to define the font first, then use that in the redefinition of the title format, as in the subsubsection example.
This document can be compiled with either XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX.
% Compile with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[vmargin=1in,hmargin=1.25in]{geometry}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures=TeX}
% Set sans serif font to Calibri
\setsansfont{Calibri}
% Set serifed font to Cambria
\setmainfont{Cambria}
% Define light and dark Microsoft blue colours
\definecolor{MSBlue}{rgb}{.204,.353,.541}
\definecolor{MSLightBlue}{rgb}{.31,.506,.741}
% Define a new fontfamily for the subsubsection font
% Don't use \fontspec directly to change the font
\newfontfamily\subsubsectionfont[Color=MSLightBlue]{Times New Roman}
% Set formats for each heading level
\titleformat*{\section}{\Large\bfseries\sffamily\color{MSBlue}}
\titleformat*{\subsection}{\large\bfseries\sffamily\color{MSLightBlue}}
\titleformat*{\subsubsection}{\itshape\subsubsectionfont}
\begin{document}
\section{A section}
This is some text.
\subsection{A subsection}
\subsubsection{A subsubsection}
\end{document}
You may define a very tiny font just like the standard font commands:
\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\Tiny}{\@setfontsize\Tiny{3pt}{4pt}}
\makeatother
This may be used like \Large or \large. I've used 3pt here, because \tiny is already 5pt at article without size option. So:
\documentclass{article}
\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\Tiny}{\@setfontsize\Tiny{5pt}{6pt}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\section{This text is normal {\Tiny This text is very tiny}}
\section{This text is normal {\tiny This text is tiny}}
\end{document}
Would show same font sizes.
BTW: Maybe package relsize would also be interesting for you:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{relsize}
\begin{document}
\section{This text is normal {\relsize{-4} This text is very tiny}}
\end{document}
This allows to set sizes not absolute but relative.
Best Answer
If I understood your question correctly, here's a possible solution; I added a colored framed around the section titles in the both the general ToC and in the ToCs generated at the beginning of each section:
The general ToC:
Two of the ToCs at the beginning of sections:
Since the modification is required for the sections in the navigation bar and not in the ToCs as I initially thought, the solution is much easier: all that is requierd is to redefine the templates
section in head/foot(for the current section) andsection in head/foot shaded(for sections different from the current one). In the following example I used a colored frame for the current section, but you can use any other style you like:Some images of some of the headlines: