Page Layout ⇒ Properly Align Sections and Subsections

[denadul]

Hello,

I'm fairly new to TeX and I'm still migrating from LibreOffice. I've encountered following problem: The space between the section numbering and the section text is always at a fixed value. Meaning that one the counter goes from "1.9" to "1.10", the section (or subsection) name will be displaced to the right by one character. Also, the section and subsection texts are displaced.
In LibreOffice there was a way to set a tab-with in between the section numbering and the section text leading to neatly aligned text. If uploaded a picture. The red line represents where I want all the text to be lined up.

Is that in any way feasible? I've been trying to achieve this using the titlesec package. As of now without proper results.

Thanks in advance!

[alainremillard]

titlesec has a way to do this. Its documentation give the definition of the normal classes in latex

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\titleformat{\section} 
{\normalfont\Large\bfseries}{\thesection}{1em}{} 
\titleformat{\subsection} 
{\normalfont\large\bfseries}{\thesubsection}{1em}{} 

Then modify it to enclose the number in a fixed width box

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{titlesec}

\titleformat{\section} 
	{\normalfont\Large\bfseries}{\makebox[30pt][l]{\thesection}}{0pt}{} 
\titleformat{\subsection} 
	{\normalfont\large\bfseries}{\makebox[30pt][l]{\thesubsection}}{0pt}{}



\begin{document}

\section{First section}

\subsection{subsection}

\subsection{subsection}

\subsection{subsection}

\subsection{subsection}

\subsection{subsection}

\subsection{subsection}

\subsection{subsection}

\subsection{subsection}

\subsection{subsection}

\subsection{subsection}

\subsection{subsection}

\subsection{subsection}

\end{document}

The \makebox command allows to change the width of a particular text, making latex believing it has another width

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\makebox[width][align]{text}

Have a nice day
Alain Rémillard

[denadul]

Alain, you made my day! The \makebox command proved to be crucial information. Thank you very much. Everything works perfectly fine!