hi Im trying to renew the section cmd to make all sections in capitals.
i have tried stuff like
\newcommand{\tmpsection}[1]{}
\let\tmpsection=\section
\renewcommand{\section}[1]{\tmpsection{\uppercase{#1}}}
but no luck.
can anyone help ? 🙂
[Tex/LaTex] force section and subsection to capital letters
capitalizationmacrossectioning
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The definition you report states that the spacing before the section title is 10pt, extendable to 14pt and shrinkable to 8pt (the fourth argument to \@startsection) and that the spacing after the title is 4pt (fifth argument).
The negative values in -10\p@ \@plus -4\p@ \@minus -2\p@ tell LaTeX that the following paragraph should not be indented; the positive value in the fifth argument tells that this sectioning level is "displayed" rather than "run in".
So if you want no space after the section title and to reduce the space above you can do something like
\makeatletter
\def\section{%
\@startsection{section}{1}{\z@}%
{-6\p@ \@plus -2\p@ \@minus -1\p@}%Caleb Serafy
{1sp}%Caleb Serafy
{\baselineskip 14pt\secfnt\@ucheadtrue}%
}
\makeatother
Notice that I didn't say 0pt (or the equivalent 0\p@ or \z@ in a \makeatletter regime) for the fifth argument, but 1sp (the minumum positive length, which is unnoticeable by the naked eye). I've marked the modifications with your name, as did GM when changed the setup in the style sheet.
However, I don't think that the conference organizers will be happy about this, since they provide a stylesheet just to ensure uniform appearance of the papers.
Your definition will work for sections and subsections, but not for chapters and has a potential drawback in that you loose control over the optional argument for the sectional units; with your definitions, the optional argument will always be equal to the mandatory argument and that might not be desirable.
Here's one option using the sectsty package:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{sectsty}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\allsectionsfont{\centering}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Test Chapter}
\section{Test Section}
\lipsum[4]
\subsection{Test Subsection}
\end{document}
And here's now an option using the titlesec package:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[center]{titlesec}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Test Chapter}
\section{Test Section}
\lipsum[4]
\subsection{Test Subsection}
\end{document}
These solution horizontally centers the headings for all sectional units; the packages provides commands to modify the formatting on a per-level basis. Here's the code (using sectsty) to apply the change only to chapters, sections and subsections:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{sectsty}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\chapterfont{\centering}
\sectionfont{\centering}
\subsectionfont{\centering}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Test Chapter}
\section{Test Section}
\lipsum[4]
\subsection{Test Subsection}
\end{document}
Best Answer
A simple way to achieve the result is by using the
sectstypackage:I used also
textcasefor\MakeTextUppercaseis usually more robust than\MakeUppercase(and\uppercasewouldn't work with accented letters).This doesn't touch the entries in the table of contents; to get also that some more work should be done.