Text Formatting ⇒ outdenting section headings (or indenting the whole text)

[alicehs]

I would like to format my section, subsection, subsubsection and paragraph headings similar to this example:

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn-book.pdf

i.e. the title 'outdented' slightly to the left (or alternatively, the whole of the rest of the text indented slightly). Any ideas?

Have tried \renewcommand{\section}etc and the titlesec usepackage, but neither seem to offer what I would like. I also have \section* commands in my document which cause problems with manipulating the actual title. Are there lengths governing the position of the text and/or title that can be manipulated?

[localghost]

Of course the titlesec package offers what you want. Have a careful look at its manual.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[alicehs]

Did have another look, but still couldn't find exactly what I was after (I do find it quite difficult when a manual doesn't provide many examples). But I have found something that will suffice as a substitute.

Thanks.