sectioningtitlesec
I'm an absolute newbie to TeX. I'm trying to get the section numbers of a section to be at the end of the title. In other words, something like "Question 4.2". Instead I get "4.2 Question 4.2" which is not great. Also, the numbers should follow with indentation. For example:
Question 4.2
4.2.1 ....
4.2.2 ....
Any ideas how I can accomplish this?
Which document class do you use?
Here is an example with scrartlc
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\renewcommand*{\othersectionlevelsformat}[3]{%
\llap{#3\autodot\enskip}}
\begin{document}
\section{foo}
\lipsum[1]
\section{bar}
\subsection{foo bar}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}
By using a standard class you can use the package titlesec
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titlelabel{\llap{\thetitle\quad}}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\section{foo}
\lipsum[1]
\section{bar}
\subsection{foo bar}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}
The result:
In relation to your comment:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{titlesec}
%1inch=25,4mm
\titlelabel{\llap{\makebox[1cm][l]{\thetitle}}\hspace*{25.4mm}}
%\usepackage{indentfirst}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{showframe}
\begin{document}
\section{foo}
\hspace*{25.4mm}\lipsum[1]
\section{bar}
\subsection{foo bar}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}
The package indentfirst is a possibility if every indent should be 1inch. I think 1inch is to big.
Set \setsecnumformat to be empty (this suppresses the numbering for the titles in the body) and redefine \sectionmark appropriately (to suppress the numbering from the headings); for example:
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\setsecnumformat{}
\def\sectionmark#1{\markboth{#1}{#1}}
\begin{document}
\section{Test section}
\lipsum[1-20]
\end{document}
Best Answer
You can change the format of the sections using the
titlesecpackage. The indention of the subsections can also be done with it. However, I'm not 100% sure what you exactly mean with Also, the numbers should follow with indentation.Result: