Automatic Capitalization of sectioning headings?

Question

Is there anyway to make LaTeX automatically capitalize sectioning headings?

That is, I would like this to generate a capitalized headline:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\section{This should be in title case.}
But it isn't.
\end{document}

What does Capitalization means? This Should Be In Title Case. or THIS SHOULD …? Related: Capitalising first letter of each word in section headings using book class — Qrrbrbirlbel, Aug 23 '13 at 02:37

score 16 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 23 '13 at 03:01

16

sectsty provides easy hooks into sectional units. \MakeUppercase turns the title into UPPERCASE, while \titlecap (from titlecaps) turns it into Title Case.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{sectsty}% http://ctan.org/pkg/sectsty
\usepackage{titlecaps}% http://ctan.org/pkg/titlecaps
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\sectionfont{\MakeUppercase}
\section{This should be in upper case}
It is!
\sectionfont{\titlecap}
\section{This should be in title case}
It is!
\end{document}

answered Aug 23 '13 at 03:01

Werner

603,163

How to make the title in the table of content print with the same style as in the body? – Mr. Ree Nov 04 '16 at 12:21
@Mr.Ree: I don't understand... can you elaborate (or ask a new question)? – Werner Nov 04 '16 at 14:26
@Werner For example, the section title "This should be in upper case" in the table of content is different from "THIS SHOULD BE IN UPPER CASE" in the body. How to make both of them be uppercase? Thanks. – Mr. Ree Nov 05 '16 at 09:21
@Mr.Ree: Consider this paste. It uses xparse to intercept and manipulate the arguments passed to \section - inserting \MakeUppercase. – Werner Nov 06 '16 at 05:08
1

but "In" should not be capitalized ? isn't it ? – Julien Narboux Jul 21 '17 at 07:53

MBR · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-23T13:15:10.590

3

Another solution, using any additional package, it to modify the \section, \subsection etc. macros. It can be done fairly easily with the following

\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\section}{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}%
             {-3.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
             {2.3ex \@plus .2ex}%
             {\normalfont\Large\scshape\bfseries}}

\renewcommand{\subsection}{\@startsection{subsection}{2}{\z@}%
             {-3.25ex\@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
             {1.5ex \@plus .2ex}%
             {\normalfont\large\scshape\bfseries}}

\renewcommand{\subsubsection}{\@startsection{subsubsection}{2}{\z@}%
             {-3.25ex\@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
             {1.5ex \@plus .2ex}%
             {\normalfont\normalsize\scshape\bfseries}}
\makeatother

The title of the section, subection and subsubsection will then be in small caps.

edited Aug 23 '13 at 13:15

answered Aug 23 '13 at 07:33

MBR

1,347

I don't think this is a particularly good solution as you'd have to change the hardcoded dimensions almost any time you're using a different document class/document layout. – Aug 23 '13 at 13:19
1

In fact, this is the proper way to do it, since it doesn't require packages not part of the standard distribution. Thanks again. – vy32 Aug 23 '13 at 15:25
This doesn't work for me. – David Manheim Nov 25 '19 at 12:25
Would you have a MWE? – MBR Nov 26 '19 at 14:01
@NBR, where should I put a dot if I want a dot following the section title? Thanks in advance... – Saba Mar 04 '21 at 14:21
You'd need to dive into the internals of TeX and modify section count format (\@seccntformat) command, as explained in the TeX FAQ. The first example is actually exactly what you want to do. – MBR Mar 05 '21 at 11:00

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 30 '20 at 06:57

If you're using hyperref, \MakeUppercase will break some ToC hyperrefs. You can use latex3 features as an alternative to \MakeUppercase, you'll just need to redefine \section. MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xparse}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\let\oldsection\section
\RenewDocumentCommand{\section}{ s o m }{ % Capitalize section headings
    % \text_uppercase will replace \tl_upper_case in later l3token version
    \tl_set:Nx\section_upper{\cs_if_exist:NTF{\text_uppercase:n}
        {\text_uppercase:n{#3}}{\tl_upper_case:n{#3}}}
    \IfBooleanTF{#1}
        {\oldsection*{\section_upper}}
        {\IfNoValueTF{#2}
            {\oldsection{\section_upper}}
            {\oldsection[#2]{\section_upper}}}}
\ExplSyntaxOff
\makeatletter
% Always capitalize section headings in ToC (tex.stackexchange.com/a/156917)
\let@oldcontentsline\contentsline
\def\contentsline#1#2{%
    \expandafter\ifx\csname l@#1\endcsname\l@section
        \expandafter@firstoftwo
    \else
        \expandafter@secondoftwo
    \fi
    {@oldcontentsline{#1}{\MakeUppercase{#2}}}%
    {@oldcontentsline{#1}{#2}}%
}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\section{this should be in upper case}
It is!
\end{document}

is there a way to do this for title case? – Austin Benny Oct 08 '21 at 00:22 — Austin Benny, Oct 08 '21 at 00:22

Automatic Capitalization of sectioning headings?

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