I am trying to use the titlesec package to achieve this but I'm not certain as to what the syntax should be…
\usepackage{titlesec}
\newcommand{\centeredsection}{\titleformat{\section}{\centering}}
Thanks for your help.
[Tex/LaTex] \newcommand for centered \section
sectioningtitlesec
Related Solutions
like this ? :
\documentclass[14pt]{memoir}
\usepackage[center]{titlesec}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\titleformat{\chapter}
{\centering\Large\bfseries} % format
{}% label
{0pt} % sep
{\huge}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter{This shouldn't be centered}
\clearpage
\section{This should be centered}
\lipsum[1]
\subsection{This should be centered}
Nothing to see here.
\end{document}
Result:
Here are two example solutions, adapted from a code for \chapter. With this type of layout, I had to change the class of \section so that a new section starts a newpage, and begins at top of page:
\documentclass[11pt, a4paper]{article}% http://ctan.org/pkg/amsproc
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{fourier, erewhon}
\usepackage[showframe]{geometry}
\usepackage[x11names]{xcolor}
\usepackage[]{titlesec}%
\titleclass{\section}{top}
\titleformat{\section}[display]
{\filleft\bfseries}
{\fontsize{72}{75}\selectfont\color{SlateGray3}\thesection}
{8ex}
{\LARGE}%
\titlespacing*{\section}{0pt}{-8ex}{12ex}
\begin{document}
\section {The History of the Seven Families}%
In former days – that is to say, once upon a time, there lived in the Land of Gramblamble, Seven Families. They lived by the side of the great Lake Pipple-popple (one of the Seven Families, indeed, lived in the Lake), and on the outskirts of the City of Tosh, which, excepting when it was quite dark, they could see plainly. The names of all these places you have probably heard of, and you have only not to look in your Geography books to find out all about them.
\end{document}
\documentclass[11pt, a4paper]{article}% http://ctan.org/pkg/amsproc
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{fourier, erewhon}
\usepackage[showframe]{geometry}
\usepackage[x11names]{xcolor}
\usepackage[]{titlesec}%
\titleclass{\section}{top}
\titleformat{\section}[display]
{\filleft\bfseries}
{\Huge\color{SlateGray3}\raisebox{-0.5\height}{\thesection}\enspace \titlerule[1pt]}
{6ex}
{\LARGE}[\vspace{4.5ex}{\color{SlateGray3}\titlerule[1pt]}]%
\titlespacing*{\section}{0pt}{-6ex}{12ex}
\begin{document}
\section {The History of the Seven Families}%
In former days – that is to say, once upon a time, there lived in the Land of Gramblamble, Seven Families. They lived by the side of the great Lake Pipple-popple (one of the Seven Families, indeed, lived in the Lake), and on the outskirts of the City of Tosh, which, excepting when it was quite dark, they could see plainly. The names of all these places you have probably heard of, and you have only not to look in your Geography books to find out all about them.
\end{document}
Edit:
The formatting of the toc title can be different from the above using \titleformat, with the numberless key, since table of contents, references, &c., are implemented as unnumbered sections in the article class. Just add this code to your preamble:
\titleformat{name = \section, numberless}[block]
{\filright}
{}
{0pt}
{\huge\textbf}%
\titlespacing*{name = \section, numberless}{0pt}{-4ex}{12ex}
Best Answer
If you want all section titles centered, it suffices to use the starred form of
\titleformatin this way:MWE:
Output:
Instead, if you are trying to create a new sectioning command which have a centered title, this can not be done in this way (supposing you are using the
articleclass):MWE:
Output: