sectioningsectstytitlesec
How do I get a full page width underline or bottom-border on a section title?
At the moment I'm using
\usepackage{sectsty}
\sectionfont{\normalfont\sffamily\large\underline\bfseries\color{orange}}
but that only underlines the text. I want the line to stretch the entire width of the page. Can I do it in the font definition or do I have to play with the rendering of \section?
Without TikZ. Still far from perfect though.
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage[paperwidth=10.5cm,paperheight=15.5cm,headheight=0.5in]{geometry}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
\definecolor{sec}{HTML}{DD5C14}
\definecolor{band}{HTML}{EE9C52}
\titleformat{\section}[hang]{\sffamily\Huge\bfseries}{}{0.5ex}%
{\begin{minipage}{0.975\textwidth}%
\noindent
\color{band}%
\llap{\vrule width\textwidth height1ex depth0ex\hskip0.75ex}%
\textcolor{sec}{\unskip#1}%
\hskip0.75ex%
\rlap{\vrule width\textwidth height1ex depth0ex}%
\end{minipage}}[\smallskip]
\titleformat{\subsection}[hang]{\sffamily\Large\bfseries}{}{0.5ex}%
{\noindent%
\color{band}%
\raisebox{0.222ex}{\hbox to 0.975\textwidth{%
\vrule width2ex height1ex depth0ex\hskip0.5ex%
\raisebox{-0.222ex}{\textcolor{sec}{#1}}%
\hskip0.75ex%
\leaders\vrule height1ex depth0ex\hfil}}}[\smallskip]
\begin{document}
\section[Politique et \'economie]{Politique \\ et \'economie}
Blablabla \ldots le politique et l'\'economie
\subsection{POLITIQUE}
Quelle horreur!
\end{document}
This works fine for me (although underlining tiles is not at all advisable: it was used in the times of typewriters, because one could not do any better):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ulem}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\paragraph}[hang]{\bfseries}{}{0pt}{\uline}
\titlespacing*{\paragraph}
{0pt}{3.25ex plus 1ex minus .2ex}{1.5ex plus .2ex}
\begin{document}
\paragraph{test}
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 text text text text text text text text.
\end{document}
Best Answer
The sectsty package provides mechanisms to add rules, rather than to use underlining as you have done. See section 8.2 of the manual.
Alternatively, the titlesec package seems to offer like facilities, described in section 3.4 of the manual.