I’m fairly new to LaTeX but love it. I am putting together the backbone of my dissertation in Report class. I am bound to APA style for headings. Using the Titlesec package I’ve got the headings very close, and here is my question: The level 2 heading (section) has major words capitalized, bold font flush left. The third level (subsection) is only first word capitalized, indented, and ends with a period. Is it worth trying (or even possible) to format the sections in Titlesec to handle the capitalization and periods, or should I just type the headings in that way every time and not worry about it?
Thanks for your time
[Tex/LaTex] Capitalization and periods in LaTeX section headings
capitalizationsectioning
Best Answer
The following might work for you:
The renewed
\subsection
command makes a choice depending on whether you supply a different (shorter) ToC entry or not. Regardless,\MakeUppercase
converts the first character to uppercase, and appends a.
at the end of the subsection title.Note that the new
\subsection
definition will always append the subsection title with a period, regardless of whether you add one or not. However, the capitalization is less rigid, as you can see from my example.Even though the example provided is typeset in the
article
documentclass, it would work similarly for thereport
documentclass.