formattingsectioningsections-paragraphstitlesec
I'm writing a document that contains a rather deep tree of nested lists, and was wondering if how I would go about reformatting the \paragraph macro to format the text contained within it as a \section, specifically by separating the title from the body and placing it above the body. I've encountered the titlesec package but I'm confused as to how to use it since it seems to be used very little so there are very few examples to follow.
Update 1: I'm using the article document class.
I think you are confusing visual markup with semantic markup.
\emph is semantic markup: it indicates that you want to emphasize some text, without specifying how that will affect the appearance of the text. The default is to make it italic, or for nested emph-within-emph to make it roman again. However, the default can be overridden if you later decide to use bold for emphasis: \renewcommand\emph{\textbf}.
\texttt, \textmd, \textsc and so on are visual markup. You should use them for implementing semantic markup. So, for example if you want to use the French convention of using small caps for family names, you could write \newcommand\familyname{\textsc} and have This was studied by John \familyname{Smith} and \familyname{Yao} Ming. If you then later decided that you no longer like this convention it is easy to change, in the preamble without needing to search through your text. Similarly you may want to write \newcommand\code{\texttt}
The visual \textXX commands will change 3 axes of the text: shape, family and weight.
\textup, \textit, \textsc and \textsl\textrm, \textsf, \texttt\textbf, \textmdfontaxes package, so that it can be used with other fonts.)You can combine options from the different axes (some combinations, such as \textbf{\textt{...}} are not available by default, discussed here). For example:
\newcommand\keyword[1]{\textsf{\textbf{#1}}}\newcommand\important[1]{\textbf{\textit{#1}}}Regarding "HI-TECH C PIC Compiler": Some fonts (especially ones aimed at newspaper and magazine publishing) have a size of capitals that is intermediate between small-caps (\textsc) and full capitals, for exactly this purpose. The default tex computer modern fonts do not have this possibility, but the computer modern \textsc is not a true small-caps, being a little taller than the x-height of the font, so can be used this way: \newcommand\hitechcomp{\textsc{hi-tech c pic} compiler}
This is a very interesting layout. Try the following code. A boolean is hooked to the \everypar. This means that if there is plain paragraph first it is set to false and the next subsection will have normal spacing. Note also the strange place where the \secskip command end up, but it seems to work.
EDIT 1: Restore original \everypar and remove vertical space of \lastskip before moving subsection up. Remove all glue and add \raggedbottom to prevent stretching.
EDIT 2: It looks if the additional vertical spacing is \baselineskip
\usepackage{titlesec}
\makeatletter
\newif\ifaftersec\aftersecfalse
\newcommand\setsubskip{%
\global\aftersectrue
\everypar{%
\global\aftersecfalse
\if@noskipsec
\global\@noskipsecfalse
\clubpenalty\@M
\hskip-\parindent
\begingroup
\@svsechd\unskip{\hspace{\@tempskipb}}%
\endgroup
\else
\clubpenalty\@clubpenalty\everypar{}%
\fi}}
\newcommand\subskip{%
\ifaftersec
\removelastskip% EDIT 2
\vspace{-\baselineskip}% EDIT 2 ??????????????
\fi
\global\aftersecfalse}
\titleformat{\section}[leftmargin]{\raggedright\scshape}{}{0pt}{}[\setsubskip]
\titlespacing*{\section}{2.5cm}{2.5ex}{0.5cm}
\titleformat{\subsection}{\subskip\bfseries}{}{0pt}{}[]
\titlespacing*{\subsection}{0pt}{2ex}{1ex}
\raggedbottom
\makeatother
Best Answer
Pages 26-27 of the titlesec documentation show "how [the] sectioning commands of the standard classes could be defined" using titlesec commands. Take the definition of
\paragraphand change the optional "format" argument of\titleformatfromrunintohang(or drop it entirely).EDIT: To make a
\paragraphlook exactly like a\sectionin the article class, use