[texhax] help redefining section

[Paul Tremblay]

On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:20:26 -0500
Paul Tremblay <phthenry at iglou.com> wrote:

> I used the code below to redefine my section, but it didn't work when
> I used \section*:
> 
> \let\OldSection=\section
> \renewcommand{\section}[1]{\singlespacing\OldSection{#1}\doublespacin
> g} 
> 
> The problem is that Latex sees the "*" as the first argument. I am
> trying to get my titles to be only single spaced, though I might also
> want to customized my sections in different ways, so I would like a
> more general solution to customizing \sections.
> 

Well, here is one solution:

% use a default setting in case you want to change the spacing in the
future.
 \let\DefaultLineSpace=\doublespacing
 \makeatletter
  \def\@makeschapterhead#1{%
 \singlespacing
    \vspace*{50\p@}%
    {\parindent \z@ \raggedright
      \normalfont
      \interlinepenalty\@M
      \Huge \bfseries  #1\par\nobreak
      \vskip 40\p@
    } 
 \DefaultLineSpace}
  \makeatother

That seems to work. I am using the memoir class. I assume that if I put
this at the beginning, I can stil se memoir commands to customize my
chapter headings. I assume that I can find teh default settings for
sections and subsections by looking at memoir.cls.

Paul