Page Layout ⇒ "Section 1" instead of "1 Section"

[sveioen]

Hello all!

I was wondering if anybody know how to change to way sections/subsections etc. are being numbered. I would like to make LaTeX format, say, "\section{Stuff}" into "Stuff 1" instead of "1 Stuff".

Thank you!

[corderin]

You could have a look at the titlesec package, you are able to change the label format, but I guess with this package you won´t be able to change the order between label (2.1 for example) and title.

[gmedina]

Using titlesec (as suggested by corderin) does allow to achieve the desired result. Take a look at the following example:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[nobottomtitles*]{titlesec}
\usepackage{ifthen}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate some text

\titleformat{\section}[runin]
  {\normalfont\Large\bfseries}
  {}{0pt}{}%
  [\ifthenelse{\equal{\thesection}{0}}{\\\vspace*{0pt}}{\space\thesection\\}]

\titlespacing{\section}
  {0pt}{*2}{0pt}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\chapter{Dummy chapter}
\section{A test section}
\lipsum[1-2]
\section{Another test section}
\lipsum[1-2]

\end{document}

Remark: use with caution; this solution is highly volatile

[sveioen]

Thank you so much for the example, gmedina. This is just what I've been looking for!

[corderin]

The only problem I have found with this wonderful code of gmedina are the TOC entries, I have been trying to get the same line as for the section titles using the titletoc package, but it seems a bit difficult.

Maybe gmedina can achieve solve that matter too!

With titletoc you can put some code after the TOC entry, but I have seen it puts this code just rigth after the whole entry, this is, after the page...

[gmedina]

The only problem I have found with this wonderful code of gmedina are the TOC entries, I have been trying to get the same line as for the section titles using the titletoc package, but it seems a bit difficult.

Maybe gmedina can achieve solve that matter too!...

A possible solution using titletoc:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[nobottomtitles*]{titlesec}
\usepackage{titletoc}
\usepackage{ifthen}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate some text

\titleformat{\section}[runin]
  {\normalfont\Large\bfseries}
  {}{0pt}{}%
  [\ifthenelse{\equal{\thesection}{0}}{\\\vspace*{0pt}}{\space\thesection\\}]

\titlespacing{\section}
  {0pt}{*2}{0pt}

\titlecontents{section}
  [1.5em]
  {}{}
  {\hspace*{-2.3em}}
  {\space\contentslabel{0pt}\hfill\contentspage}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\chapter{Dummy chapter}
\section{A test section}
\lipsum[1-4]
\section{Another test section}
\lipsum[1-2]

\end{document}

[corderin]

Gmedina I have been a time trying to solve this and I couldn´t, the result is achieved, and modifiying the last line as follows you get the separation dots between title and page in the TOC!

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\titlecontents{section}
  [1.5em]
  {}{}
  {\hspace*{-2.3em}}
  {\space\contentslabel{0pt}\titlerule*[1pc]{.}\contentspage}