Titlesec

This package is essentialy a replacement--partial or total--for theLaTEX macros related with sections--namely titles, headers andcontents. The goal is to provide new features unavailable in currentLaTEX, such as:

1) Different classes and "shapes" of titles, with tools for veryfancy formats. You can define different formats for left and rightpages, or numbered and unnumbered titles, measure the width of thetitle, add a new section level, use graphics, and many more.

2) Headers and footers defined with no \...markintermediates, and perhaps containing top, first and bot marks atthe same time. Top marks correctly syncronized with titles, and withoutuncompatibilities with the float mechanism. Decorative elementseasily added, including picture environments.

3) Pretty free form contents, with the possibility of groupingentries of differents levels in a paragraph, changing the formatof entries in the middle of a document or creating partial tocs.

In the following examples the program fully automates the format and nomanual intervention is required to readjust individual titles. In thefirst one, there is a rule of dots whose width is that of the longest lineplus 2 pc:

The wrap style measures the title and wraps the text around it:

Finally a margin title with a rule above both title and text.

News

Version 2.8 released (2007-08-12). (Version 2.7, released a few daysbefore, in incompatible with the KOMA-Scripts classes and it should beconsidered deprecated.) New in this release:

• \titlepagestyle assigns a page style to a sectioningcommand (mainly \part and\chapter).
• With the package option explicit the title is notimplicit at the end of the title format but it shouldbe given explicitly (with a macro parameter).
• leftmargin has now an 'after' argument to add stuffat he beginning of the paragraph.
• The patch mechanism has been removed (titlesec.newand titletoc.new no longer exist).

(Some other changes have been left for a later release.)

Free downloads

• Download page fortitlesec. Version 2.8 ofthe package (ZIP, 590k)
• titlesecex.pdf. Further samples fromfrom the manual (PDF, 17k).
• titlesec.pdf.Manual (PDF, 225k).
• (Not yet available.) A summary in Spanish
• ttltips.pdf. Tips and tricks (inprogress, PDF, 55k).