[Tex/LaTex] How to get new line after \subparagraph title

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Is there a default way to change the style of the \subparagraph title, namely to add a new line after the title? Is there a way to do it without \renewcommand (some style changes of something else) – if not, how to do it with \renewcommand corectly?

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You didn't specify the document class, so I assume for the moment you're using a standard class. The titlesec package offers a way to change the definition of \section & friends.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{titlesec}

% Definition of \subparagraph emulating that of the standard classes
% \titleformat{\subparagraph}[runin]
%     {\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}{\thesubparagraph}{1em}{}
% \titlespacing*{\subparagraph}{\parindent}{3.25ex plus 1ex minus .2ex}{1em}

% Definition of \subparagraph starting new line after heading
\titleformat{\subparagraph}
    {\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}{\thesubparagraph}{1em}{}
\titlespacing*{\subparagraph}{\parindent}{3.25ex plus 1ex minus .2ex}{.75ex plus .1ex}

\begin{document}

\subparagraph{foo}

Some text.

\end{document}

EDIT: Herbert's answer reminded me that the vertical space after the subparagraph heading should be stretchable. Code example changed accordingly.

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I wouldn't consider what you're asking good practice, but you can redefine the \@maketitle macro (which is internally used by the article class to typeset the title), to put the title into a box and scale it to the appropriate width using the \resizebox macro from the graphics/graphicx package. Here's an example that might fit your needs:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{graphics}

\makeatletter
  \def\title@font{\Large\bfseries}
  \let\ltx@maketitle\@maketitle
  \def\@maketitle{\bgroup%
    \let\ltx@title\@title%
    \def\@title{\resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{%
      \mbox{\title@font\ltx@title}%
    }}%
    \ltx@maketitle%
  \egroup}
\makeatother

\title{A Title That's Either Very Long or Awfully Short}
\author{Me}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\end{document}

Here, the title font properties are stored in \title@font, so you can change them at your own discretion. As an example, I set the title in a bold font. In particular, I would advise you to adjust the font size in the definition of \title@font, e.g. \Large, \Huge, \normalsize, ... , to match the proper optical font size as closely as possible, i.e. that the title has to be scaled by as small an amount as possible.

[Tex/LaTex] Why is there no new line after paragraph sectioning commands

Most latex sectioning commands (below \chapter) are handled by the internal \@startsection macro. This implements two distinct styles of heading display headings that are offset vertically from the following paragraph, and inline headings that are set as the initial part of the following paragraph.

The standard classes switch style to inline at the \paragraph level although it is easy to redefine them back if you wish.

Inline "headings" are not that uncommon but sometimes "heading" text isn't really a heading but just the first word(s) of the paragraph. The setting is often similar to that of a description environment which is often another alternative markup at this level, there isn't really a hard line between sectional units of a document and a list once you get down to level 5 or 6 headings.

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