fontsizesectioningtitlesec
I want to set the section font to the specific size and type. But using \titleformat can only give few standard types, like Large, large…
\titleformat*{\section}{\LARGE\headingfont}
\titleformat*{\subsection}{\Large\headingfont}
\titleformat*{\subsubsection}{\large\headingfont}
I wonder is there any way to use
\fontencoding{OT1}\fontfamily{cmr}\fontseries{m}\fontshape{n}\fontsize{11pt}{11}\selectfont
to change the section font size?
Thanks a lot!
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}
As already said you have to use \makeatletter and \makeatother because in Tex @ ist used as special character for internal commands. If you really want to change the format this way you have to change the defaults. Here is a minimal working example:
\documentclass{article}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}%
{-3.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
{2.3ex \@plus.2ex}%
{\normalfont\Huge\bfseries}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\section{test}
\end{document}
It might be easier to use a special package like titlesec
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\section}{\Huge\bfseries}{\thesection}{1em}{}
\begin{document}
\section{test}
\end{document}
or sectsty
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{sectsty}
\sectionfont{\Huge\bfseries}
\begin{document}
\section{test}
\end{document}
Or if you are using Koma Script you can eaily do:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\setkomafont{section}{\Huge\bfseries}
\begin{document}
\section{test}
\end{document}
I wouldn't recommand to change the section format directly. I would use Koma-Script or titlesec
Best Answer
You can simply use your commands as arguments for
\titleformat*: