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I am trying to modify the basic article class section headers so that the main section level is centered and has the format "1. XXXXX ". To accomplish this I am trying to use the titlesec package. However when I specify the titelformat I get the following error:

Package titlesec Error: Unknown shape.

Even a minimum working example that I found and tweaked from here won't work. What I specifically tried compiling using pdflatex was

\documentclass[11pt]{article}

\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\section}[block]
  {\fontsize{12}{15}\bfseries\sffamily\filecenter}
  {\thesection}
  {1em}
  {\MakeUppercase}

\begin{document}

\thesection{Behold}
Blah blah blah.  Something about something important, maybe.

\end{document}

Is there an issue with my LaTeX distribution or has something changed since this example was made and now? Thanks!

Mensch
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Bocephus85
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    Welcome to TeX SX! There are two errors in your code: the centring directive is \filcenter, not \filecenter. And the section call is \section{Behold}, not \thesection (which is the command to print the current section number). With these corrections, it compiles normally for me. – Bernard Aug 23 '17 at 20:57
  • Thank you for the welcome! I made the corrections that you pointed out in your comment, but it still didn't compile for me. As I was typing a reply to your comment I realized that I grabbed the .sty files from CTAN. Previously in my haste though I only grabbed the .sty files and not the ancillary files. Once I downloaded those every thing started working. Thank you for your help with my errors! – Bocephus85 Aug 23 '17 at 21:54
  • But why didn't you install titlesec with the package manager of your distribution? – Bernard Aug 23 '17 at 22:00
  • To be honest, I'm not entirely sure. I'm using Ubuntu for the first time after switch from Mac and did a get-apt to get Latex. Most likely I did not get a complete package. There have been several packages that I've found missing that I've had to go find and add myself. – Bocephus85 Aug 23 '17 at 22:27
  • But you have tlmgr? – Bernard Aug 23 '17 at 22:31
  • Yes, I do have it. I'll have to look into how to use it to make sure my distribution is complete. – Bocephus85 Aug 24 '17 at 14:52

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