document-classeslncsparagraphssectioning
I am using the LNCS document class to typeset a paper. I would like to keep most of this document style, but I do not like how paragraphs are typeset. The heading of the paragraph is in italics, which is not enough contrast to the rest of the text. I would like to change this to bold text.
How can I override the paragraph style, being minimally invasive?
You didn't say anything about your document class. So, here comes an example for article that uses the titlesec package.
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[raggedright]{titlesec}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\titleformat{\paragraph}[hang]{\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}{\theparagraph}{1em}{}
\titlespacing*{\paragraph}{0pt}{3.25ex plus 1ex minus .2ex}{0.5em}
\begin{document}
\blinddocument
\end{document}
You can easily adjust the space before and after the heading according to your needs. The package manual has the details. The package also masters page styles so that it might not be necessary to load fancyhdr.
Note that the blindtext package is only used for creating dummy text thus not part of the solution.
in the file stdlayouts.inc you can copy the definition for quotation
to a part called "myquotation". In the file stdlists you can see at the end how additional preamble commands can be made which are hided from the normal user. After changing your layout file run reconfigure and restart lyx, there should now be a "myquoation" in all styles which support this kind of environment.
Here is an example for an LyX environment MyQuotation
Style MyQuotation
Category MainText
Margin Static
LatexType Environment
LatexName myquotation
NextNoIndent 1
LeftMargin MMM
RightMargin MMM
ParIndent MM
ParSkip 0
ItemSep 0
TopSep 0.5
BottomSep 0.5
ParSep 0
Align Block
AlignPossible Block, Left, Right, Center
Preamble
\usepackage{mdframed}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\newenvironment{myquotation}
{\begin{mdframed}[linecolor=red]\quotation}
{\endquotation\end{mdframed}}
EndPreamble
End
insert it into the file stdlayouts.inc and save the file in your local .lyx/layouts/ directory (don't know how it shopuld be on windows). Then run reconfigure and you shouöld see the paagraph layout MyQuotation which then gives a framed output.
Best Answer
Doing what you ask is very easy: add
to your document preamble.
However, this will make the typesetting of
\paragraphtitles very similar to what's already done for\subsubsection.As far as I understand, the
llncsclass has three levels of sectioning, corresponding to\section,\subsectionand\subsubsection. The last one is unnumbered by default.The example document uses
\paragraphfor comments about proofs or similar things, so just as a “special paragraph” of text. I believe this is good usage, but I wouldn't give these special paragraphs much prominence than they already are given with the title in italics.Trust me: a paragraph starting with a title in italics and preceded by some vertical space is noticeable. Rather, it's more questionable that there is no vertical space at the end of this special paragraph.
You can define a
commentsenvironment that remedies to this situation:that will add the same vertical space at the bottom as it adds at the top.
Don't abuse
\subsubsectionfor this purpose.