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jackson13info / mla13

A LaTeX MLA style formatter package that allows users to create MLA style documents easily.
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Section Headings #4

Closed kc9jud closed 11 years ago

kc9jud commented 11 years ago

It would be convenient if the \section command were formatted correctly -- not sure how to implement this, though. Purdue OWL Formatting Section with suggested numbered heading style. (The OWL site is down right now, so that's a link to the google cache of it.)

jmclawson commented 11 years ago

I still don't know how to work GitHub. But I just submitted a pull request to address this issue (thereby opening a new issue with the same name).

kc9jud commented 11 years ago

Haha, I think that's the only way to do it. I also submitted a pull request, with a different way of doing it: https://github.com/kc9jud/mla13/commit/d89fffa753516a39038b4a0022edff9a0470a579

jmclawson commented 11 years ago

I like that you've also defined subsections and left the section header exactly one line above the text. But since the MLA Style Manual doesn't really define how to format section headings on the page, and since these section headings also define how the words "Works Cited" appear, wouldn't it make sense to center them? (As for GitHub magic, I don't even know how to make a nice little link like you've just done!)

kc9jud commented 11 years ago

Hmm... I'm not seeing these definitions change my "Works Cited" appearance. I've been using this for a couple hours now and it doesn't seem to affect that particular section. There must be some black magic going on here...

jmclawson commented 11 years ago

It's probably because MLA13 doesn't actually print "Works Cited" as a section header, though biblatex-mla does do this. I'm guessing one of the reasons MLA13 defines its own pseudo header for the list of Works Cited is because section headers were poorly formatted--which your patch addresses.

(The benefit of typesetting "Works Cited" as a section header includes things like PDF bookmarks for navigating through sections of a document. This is one of the changes I've added to my fork of MLA13, for which I'll be adding pull requests after I release an update to biblatex-mla on CTAN sometime this week.)