[Tex/LaTex] Creating bullets within a subsection

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I'm fairly new to LaTeX, and I have no idea how to fix this. Basically I make a subsection using \section, and then create subsections using \subsectiond. Now I need to create bullets within the subsection, but I can't find syntax that works. Can anybody help me out?

Best Answer

It should work out if you just use the following syntax at the respective place in your document:

\begin{itemize}
\item First bullet point 
\item Another bullet point 
\item Add as many bullet points as you want
\end{itemize}

That way, it should be working, now matter whether you are writing within a section or a subsection or even a subsubsection. :)

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[Tex/LaTex] Changing number format in ToC

If you redefine \thesubsection it would carry over to the TOC:

\renewcommand*{\thesubsection}{\thesection~\S~\arabic{subsection}}

Or start by adding it to \thesection:

\renewcommand*{\thesection}{\arabic{section}~\S}
\renewcommand*{\thesubsection}{\thesection~\arabic{subsection}}

Note, I used ~ instead of \ because a line break between number and § is not very desirable.

[Tex/LaTex] titlesec ToC formatting — capitalization, subsection numbering for sections, title formatting

Here's one way to do it:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{titletoc}

\titleformat{\section} % command
[hang]                 % shape
{\normalsize\bfseries} % format
{\thesubsection}       % label
{1em}                  % Spacing between label and title
{\MakeUppercase}       % before code
\titlespacing{\section}% Set the spacing around the title
{0pt}                  % Left
{0pt}                  % Above
{0pt}                  % Below

\newcommand\RegToCEntries{
  \titlecontents{section}[2em]
    {\vspace{12pt}}
    {\normalfont\normalsize\contentslabel[\thecontentslabel.0]{2em}\uppercase}
    {\hspace*{-2em}\uppercase}
    {\titlerule*[.75em]{.}\contentspage}
}
\newcommand\AppToCEntries{
  \titlecontents{section}[0em]
    {\vspace{12pt}}
    {\normalfont\normalsize\contentspush{\MakeUppercase{\appendixname}}%
      \contentslabel{-1em}\hspace{2em}\makebox[1em][l]{--}%
    }
    {\hspace*{-2em}}
    {\titlerule*[.75em]{.}\contentspage}
}
\AtBeginDocument{\RegToCEntries}
\pretocmd{\appendix}{\AppToCEntries}{}{}
\patchcmd{\tableofcontents}
  {\contentsname}
  {\hfill\MakeUppercase{\contentsname}\hfill\null}
  {}
  {}

\titleformat{\subsection} % command
[hang]                 % shape
{\bfseries\normalsize} % format
{\thesubsection}       % label
{1em}                  % Spacing between label and title
{}                     % before code
\titlespacing{\subsection}% Set the spacing around the title
{0pt}                  % Left
{0pt}                  % Above
{0pt}                  % Below

\titleformat{\subsubsection} % command
[runin]                % shape
{\bfseries\normalsize} % format
{\thesubsubsection}    % label
{1em}                % Spacing between label and title
{}                     % before code
[.]                    % after code

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents
\clearpage% just for the example
\blinddocument
\appendix
\section{A test appendix}
\section{Another test appendix}

\end{document}

The result:

Explanation

Center the ToC title.

I used the etoolbox package to patch \tableofcontents:

\patchcmd{\tableofcontents}
  {\contentsname}
  {\hfill\MakeUppercase{\contentsname}\hfill\null}
  {}
  {}

Formatting for section entries.

I defined two commands \RegToCEntries and \AppToCEntries:

\newcommand\RegToCEntries{
  \titlecontents{section}[2em]
    {\vspace{12pt}}
    {\normalfont\normalsize\contentslabel[\thecontentslabel.0]{2em}\uppercase}
    {\hspace*{-2em}\uppercase}
    {\titlerule*[.75em]{.}\contentspage}
}
\newcommand\AppToCEntries{
  \titlecontents{section}[0em]
    {\vspace{12pt}}
    {\normalfont\normalsize\contentspush{\MakeUppercase{\appendixname}}%
      \contentslabel{-1em}\hspace{2em}\makebox[1em][l]{--}%
    }
    {\hspace*{-2em}}
    {\titlerule*[.75em]{.}\contentspage}
}

The first one gives the desired formatting for regular sections and the seccond one, for sections in appendix; I added Appendix using \contentspush. The first command is used \AtBeginDocument:

\AtBeginDocument{\RegToCEntries}

and the second one is applied automatically after invoking \appendix:

\pretocmd{\appendix}{\AppToCEntries}{}{}

Suggestion

Your code sets

\titlespacing{\section}% Set the spacing around the title
{0pt}                  % Left
{0pt}                  % Above
{0pt}

which suppresses spacing around section titles; I'd suggest you to use positive values in the last two arguments so section titles will have better vertical spacing with respect to the surrounding text.