[Tex/LaTex] Section Text Alignment

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I need to define customize head levels. The numbered section wrapping text indentation should be removed.

The below mentioned pictrue is my required output:

enter image description here

MWE:

\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}

\def\numbered{\setcounter{secnumdepth}{5}}

\numbered


\makeatletter

\renewcommand\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}%
                                   {-3.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
                                   {8.25pt}%
                                   {\normalfont\Large\bfseries}}
\renewcommand\subsection{\@startsection{subsection}{2}{\z@}%
                                     {-3.25ex\@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
                                     {.1ex}%.0001ex
                                     {\normalfont\large\bfseries}}
\renewcommand\subsubsection{\@startsection{subsubsection}{3}{\z@}%
                                     {-3.25ex\@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
                                     {.1ex}%11.5pt
                                     {\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}}
\renewcommand\paragraph{\@startsection{paragraph}{4}{\z@}%
                                {-3.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%3.25ex \@plus1ex \@minus.2ex
                                    {.1ex}%
                                    {\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}}
\renewcommand\subparagraph{\@startsection{subparagraph}{5}{\z@}%
                              {-3.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%3.25ex \@plus1ex \@minus .2ex
                                       {.1ex}%
                                      {\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}}
\makeatother



\begin{document}

\section{Anatomically and geometrically accurate representations of the
cortex are needed for realistic modeling of SD}

\lipsum[1-5]

\subsection{Anatomically and geometrically accurate representations of the
cortex are needed for realistic modeling of SD}

\lipsum[6]

\subsubsection{Anatomically and geometrically accurate representations of the
cortex are needed for realistic modeling of SD}

\lipsum[7]

\paragraph{Anatomically and geometrically accurate representations of the
cortex are needed for realistic modeling of SD}

\lipsum[8]

\subparagraph{Anatomically and geometrically accurate representations of the
cortex are needed for realistic modeling of SD}

\lipsum[9]

\end{document}

Please advice the how to get the above mentioned picture "CORRECT" output.

Please provide solution how to adjust the section number and section text in between space?

Best Answer

You can just locally disable hanging indentation

enter image description here

\makeatletter
\renewcommand\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}%
                                   {-3.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
                                   {8.25pt}%
                                   {\let\hangindent\dimen@\normalfont\Large\bfseries}}
\renewcommand\subsection{\@startsection{subsection}{2}{\z@}%
                                     {-3.25ex\@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
                                     {.1ex}%.0001ex
                                     {\let\hangindent\dimen@\normalfont\large\bfseries}}
\renewcommand\subsubsection{\@startsection{subsubsection}{3}{\z@}%
                                     {-3.25ex\@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
                                     {.1ex}%11.5pt
                                     {\let\hangindent\dimen@\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}}
\renewcommand\paragraph{\@startsection{paragraph}{4}{\z@}%
                                {-3.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%3.25ex \@plus1ex \@minus.2ex
                                    {.1ex}%
                                    {\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}}
\renewcommand\subparagraph{\@startsection{subparagraph}{5}{\z@}%
                              {-3.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%3.25ex \@plus1ex \@minus .2ex
                                       {.1ex}%
                                      {\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}}
\makeatother

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An option using titlesec; the idea is to place the counter inside a box of width equal to the value for \parindent:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{indentfirst}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\setlength\parindent{30pt}
\newlength\mylen
\setlength\mylen{\parindent}

\renewcommand\thesection{\Alph{section}}
\titleformat{\section}
  {\normalfont\Large\bfseries}
  {\makebox[\mylen][l]{\thesection.}}
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\begin{document}

\section{Test section}
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\end{document}

enter image description here

Most probably you won't need the line

\setlength\parindent{30pt}

I used it in my example code to have a generous value for \parindent, which apparently your class already provides. Since your class seems to be a non-standard one (seeing the font size for section titles), please consider changing the \Large in the second mandatory argument of

\titleformat{\section}
  {\normalfont\Large\bfseries}
  {\makebox[\mylen][l]{\thesection.}}
  {0pt}
  {}

to conform to your class definitions.

[Tex/LaTex] Margin adjustment for section text

Here is a solution with titleps. I define a wideoddhead pagestyle that does what you want (if I understood well) without having to change margins. I had to modify the sectrion formatting. Also simplified your preamble:

\documentclass[10pt, letterpaper, twoside]{article}

\usepackage[vmargin=0.5in, left=1.25in, right=0.75in, headheight=0.75in, headsep=12pt, footskip=30pt, textheight=670pt]{geometry}
\usepackage[pagestyles, indentafter]{titlesec}

\newpagestyle{wideoddhead}{%
\setheadrule{1pt}
\widenhead[0pt][0pt]{0.5in}{0pt}
\sethead[\footnotesize\bfseries\thepage][][\footnotesize\itshape{\sectiontitle}]{10/22/2014}{\footnotesize\textbf{My Title}}{\footnotesize\bfseries\thepage}
}

\titleformat{\section}[block]{\bfseries\large}{\llap{\makebox[0.5in][l]{\thesection.}}}{0pt}{}
\pagestyle{wideoddhead}
\raggedbottom

\begin{document}

\section{The First Section}
Text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text.
As you can see, the header is aligned with the text. I am trying to get the header aligned with the section number while keeping the text aligned with the section title.
\pagebreak
\section{The Next Section}
It also gets really messed up for two-sided documents, if the left and right margin are set to different values. Moving only section text would alleviate this problem.

\end{document}

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