Text Formatting ⇒ Spacing with sectsty

[alarswilson]

I need to have precisely two empty lines before each section, and one empty line after. I managed the space before with the following:

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% Setup for Section Headings (sectsty)
\sectionfont{\normalfont\itshape\normalsize\vspace*{0pt}}
\subsectionfont{\normalfont\normalsize\vspace*{0pt}}
\subsubsectionfont{\normalfont\normalsize\vspace*{12pt}}

but the space after the section heading is still more than a usual double space. I'm using setspace:

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\usepackage{setspace}
\doublespacing

Thanks for your help.

[localghost]

A possible solution has been given in another topic [1]. The sectsty package is not the right one for this job.

[1] View topic: Trouble with dissertation formatting in Turabian style


Best regards
Thorsten

[alarswilson]

Are you suggesting I edit the document style itself?

I attempted to post your code into my preamble with "renewcommand", but when I ran LaTeX it stopped at the first section break, claiming some kind of problem with vertical space.

How do I go about editing the report.cls file? I'm embarassed to say I don't even know where to find it. I'm using MacTeX.

Andrew

[localghost]

Are you suggesting I edit the document style itself? [...]

I wonder how you come to this realization. Please explain to me where and how I did that.

[...] I attempted to post your code into my preamble with "renewcommand", but when I ran LaTeX it stopped at the first section break, claiming some kind of problem with vertical space. [...]

Which code? I don't see where I posted code here in this topic. And please be precise in your description of a problem. Such trivial statements are not helpful. For the exact error message take a look at the log file and post the relevant parts if necessary.

[...] How do I go about editing the report.cls file? I'm embarassed to say I don't even know where to find it. [...]

Never edit a class or package file. Essential modifications can be done in the preamble of a document or in a separate package of your own.

In the topic I linked in my last reply you can find a complete example. In case of upcoming questions I suggest to continue the discussion there.

[alarswilson]

Thank you for your reply, and my apologies for not being specific enough, or for following your responses in the other posts. The titlesec modifications handled the section spacing issues.

[localghost]

[...] The titlesec modifications handled the section spacing issues.

It would be good if you could give feedback in the related topics just to show that the issues are solved or the discussions have to be continued.