Titlesec package for LaTeX

This package is essentialy a replacement--partial or total--for the LaTEX macros related with sections--namely titles, headers and contents. The goal is to provide new features unavailable in current LaTEX, such as:

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

2) Headers and footers defined with no \...mark intermediates, and perhaps containing top, first and bot marks at the same time. Top marks correctly syncronized with titles, and without uncompatibilities with the float mechanism. Decorative elements easily added, including picture environments.

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

In the following examples the program fully automates the format and no manual intervention is required to readjust individual titles. In the first one, there is a rule of dots whose width is that of the longest line plus 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 days before, in incompatible with the KOMA-Scripts classes and it should be considered deprecated.) New in this release:

• \titlepagestyle assigns a page style to a sectioning command (mainly \part and \chapter).
• With the package option explicit the title is not implicit at the end of the title format but it should be given explicitly (with a macro parameter).
• leftmargin has now an 'after' argument to add stuff at he beginning of the paragraph.
• The patch mechanism has been removed (titlesec.new and titletoc.new no longer exist).

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

Free downloads

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