Title formatting the section makes the bibliography header disappear












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I used a section style that I found here.
The problem is that the header of the bibliography becomes a box even though I've tried to make a separate style for unnumbered sections.



documentclass{article}

usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

usepackage{xcolor}

usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}

usepackage{soul}



definecolor{titleblue}{HTML}{4a7aa4}



title{Sections and Chapters}

author{Educ}

date{today}



newboxTitleUnderlineTestBox

newcommand*TitleUnderline[1]

  {%

    bgroup

    setboxTitleUnderlineTestBoxhbox{colorbox{titleblue}strut}%

    setul{dimexprdpTitleUnderlineTestBox-.3exrelax}{.3ex}%

    ul{#1}%

    egroup

  }

newcommand*SectionNumberBox[1]

  {%

    colorbox{titleblue}

      {%

        makebox[2.5em][c]

          {%

            color{white}%

            strut

            csname the#1endcsname

          }%

      }%

    TitleUnderline{   }%

  }

titleformat{section}

  {Largebfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}

  {SectionNumberBox{section}}

  {0pt}

  {TitleUnderline{#1}}

titleformat{subsection}

  {largebfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}

  {SectionNumberBox{subsection}}

  {0pt}

  {TitleUnderline{#1}}



begin{document}



maketitle



section{The First Section}



begin{thebibliography}{}

bibitem{}

end{thebibliography}





end{document}


Edit: This is the error message that shows up:




I came across hyphenatable material enclosed in group braces, which I
can't handle. Either drop the braces or make the material unbreakable
using an mbox (hbox). Note that a space also counts as possible
hyphenation point. See page 4 of the manual. I'm leaving a black
square so that you can see where I am right now.







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    This code is not compilable, and has no formatting for unnumbered sections.

    – Bernard
    Feb 22 at 14:18











  • Your MWE misses a end{thebibliography}.

    – Skillmon
    Feb 22 at 15:16











  • @Skillmon Even if it's included, I still get a blue box instead of "References".

    – Isomorphic Twin
    Feb 22 at 15:18






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    @Bernard section*{Foo} does work.

    – Skillmon
    Feb 22 at 15:20
















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I used a section style that I found here.
The problem is that the header of the bibliography becomes a box even though I've tried to make a separate style for unnumbered sections.



documentclass{article}

usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

usepackage{xcolor}

usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}

usepackage{soul}



definecolor{titleblue}{HTML}{4a7aa4}



title{Sections and Chapters}

author{Educ}

date{today}



newboxTitleUnderlineTestBox

newcommand*TitleUnderline[1]

  {%

    bgroup

    setboxTitleUnderlineTestBoxhbox{colorbox{titleblue}strut}%

    setul{dimexprdpTitleUnderlineTestBox-.3exrelax}{.3ex}%

    ul{#1}%

    egroup

  }

newcommand*SectionNumberBox[1]

  {%

    colorbox{titleblue}

      {%

        makebox[2.5em][c]

          {%

            color{white}%

            strut

            csname the#1endcsname

          }%

      }%

    TitleUnderline{   }%

  }

titleformat{section}

  {Largebfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}

  {SectionNumberBox{section}}

  {0pt}

  {TitleUnderline{#1}}

titleformat{subsection}

  {largebfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}

  {SectionNumberBox{subsection}}

  {0pt}

  {TitleUnderline{#1}}



begin{document}



maketitle



section{The First Section}



begin{thebibliography}{}

bibitem{}

end{thebibliography}





end{document}


Edit: This is the error message that shows up:




I came across hyphenatable material enclosed in group braces, which I
can't handle. Either drop the braces or make the material unbreakable
using an mbox (hbox). Note that a space also counts as possible
hyphenation point. See page 4 of the manual. I'm leaving a black
square so that you can see where I am right now.







sectioning formatting







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  • 1





    This code is not compilable, and has no formatting for unnumbered sections.

    – Bernard
    Feb 22 at 14:18











  • Your MWE misses a end{thebibliography}.

    – Skillmon
    Feb 22 at 15:16











  • @Skillmon Even if it's included, I still get a blue box instead of "References".

    – Isomorphic Twin
    Feb 22 at 15:18






  • 1





    @Bernard section*{Foo} does work.

    – Skillmon
    Feb 22 at 15:20














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I used a section style that I found here.
The problem is that the header of the bibliography becomes a box even though I've tried to make a separate style for unnumbered sections.



documentclass{article}

usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

usepackage{xcolor}

usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}

usepackage{soul}



definecolor{titleblue}{HTML}{4a7aa4}



title{Sections and Chapters}

author{Educ}

date{today}



newboxTitleUnderlineTestBox

newcommand*TitleUnderline[1]

  {%

    bgroup

    setboxTitleUnderlineTestBoxhbox{colorbox{titleblue}strut}%

    setul{dimexprdpTitleUnderlineTestBox-.3exrelax}{.3ex}%

    ul{#1}%

    egroup

  }

newcommand*SectionNumberBox[1]

  {%

    colorbox{titleblue}

      {%

        makebox[2.5em][c]

          {%

            color{white}%

            strut

            csname the#1endcsname

          }%

      }%

    TitleUnderline{   }%

  }

titleformat{section}

  {Largebfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}

  {SectionNumberBox{section}}

  {0pt}

  {TitleUnderline{#1}}

titleformat{subsection}

  {largebfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}

  {SectionNumberBox{subsection}}

  {0pt}

  {TitleUnderline{#1}}



begin{document}



maketitle



section{The First Section}



begin{thebibliography}{}

bibitem{}

end{thebibliography}





end{document}


Edit: This is the error message that shows up:




I came across hyphenatable material enclosed in group braces, which I
can't handle. Either drop the braces or make the material unbreakable
using an mbox (hbox). Note that a space also counts as possible
hyphenation point. See page 4 of the manual. I'm leaving a black
square so that you can see where I am right now.







sectioning formatting







share|improve this question
















I used a section style that I found here.
The problem is that the header of the bibliography becomes a box even though I've tried to make a separate style for unnumbered sections.



documentclass{article}

usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

usepackage{xcolor}

usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}

usepackage{soul}



definecolor{titleblue}{HTML}{4a7aa4}



title{Sections and Chapters}

author{Educ}

date{today}



newboxTitleUnderlineTestBox

newcommand*TitleUnderline[1]

  {%

    bgroup

    setboxTitleUnderlineTestBoxhbox{colorbox{titleblue}strut}%

    setul{dimexprdpTitleUnderlineTestBox-.3exrelax}{.3ex}%

    ul{#1}%

    egroup

  }

newcommand*SectionNumberBox[1]

  {%

    colorbox{titleblue}

      {%

        makebox[2.5em][c]

          {%

            color{white}%

            strut

            csname the#1endcsname

          }%

      }%

    TitleUnderline{   }%

  }

titleformat{section}

  {Largebfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}

  {SectionNumberBox{section}}

  {0pt}

  {TitleUnderline{#1}}

titleformat{subsection}

  {largebfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}

  {SectionNumberBox{subsection}}

  {0pt}

  {TitleUnderline{#1}}



begin{document}



maketitle



section{The First Section}



begin{thebibliography}{}

bibitem{}

end{thebibliography}





end{document}


Edit: This is the error message that shows up:




I came across hyphenatable material enclosed in group braces, which I
can't handle. Either drop the braces or make the material unbreakable
using an mbox (hbox). Note that a space also counts as possible
hyphenation point. See page 4 of the manual. I'm leaving a black
square so that you can see where I am right now.







sectioning formatting




sectioning formatting






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  • 1





    This code is not compilable, and has no formatting for unnumbered sections.

    – Bernard
    Feb 22 at 14:18











  • Your MWE misses a end{thebibliography}.

    – Skillmon
    Feb 22 at 15:16











  • @Skillmon Even if it's included, I still get a blue box instead of "References".

    – Isomorphic Twin
    Feb 22 at 15:18






  • 1





    @Bernard section*{Foo} does work.

    – Skillmon
    Feb 22 at 15:20














  • 1





    This code is not compilable, and has no formatting for unnumbered sections.

    – Bernard
    Feb 22 at 14:18











  • Your MWE misses a end{thebibliography}.

    – Skillmon
    Feb 22 at 15:16











  • @Skillmon Even if it's included, I still get a blue box instead of "References".

    – Isomorphic Twin
    Feb 22 at 15:18






  • 1





    @Bernard section*{Foo} does work.

    – Skillmon
    Feb 22 at 15:20








1




1





This code is not compilable, and has no formatting for unnumbered sections.

– Bernard
Feb 22 at 14:18





This code is not compilable, and has no formatting for unnumbered sections.

– Bernard
Feb 22 at 14:18













Your MWE misses a end{thebibliography}.

– Skillmon
Feb 22 at 15:16





Your MWE misses a end{thebibliography}.

– Skillmon
Feb 22 at 15:16













@Skillmon Even if it's included, I still get a blue box instead of "References".

– Isomorphic Twin
Feb 22 at 15:18





@Skillmon Even if it's included, I still get a blue box instead of "References".

– Isomorphic Twin
Feb 22 at 15:18




1




1





@Bernard section*{Foo} does work.

– Skillmon
Feb 22 at 15:20





@Bernard section*{Foo} does work.

– Skillmon
Feb 22 at 15:20










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The problem seems the unexpanded name of the section (if I'm not mistaken). The following completely expands the given name with an edef expansion (this might produce new issues, I'm not sure). It however works for your MWE:



documentclass{article}

usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

usepackage{xcolor}

usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}

usepackage{soul}



definecolor{titleblue}{HTML}{4a7aa4}



title{Sections and Chapters}

author{Educ}

date{today}



newboxTitleUnderlineTestBox

newcommand*TitleUnderline[1]

  {%

    bgroup

    setboxTitleUnderlineTestBoxhbox{colorbox{titleblue}strut}%

    setul{dimexprdpTitleUnderlineTestBox-.3exrelax}{.3ex}%

    edefmytmp{#1}%

    expandafterulexpandafter{mytmp}%

    egroup

  }

newcommand*SectionNumberBox[1]

  {%

    colorbox{titleblue}

      {%

        makebox[2.5em][c]

          {%

            color{white}%

            strut

            csname the#1endcsname

          }%

      }%

    TitleUnderline{   }%

  }

titleformat{section}

  {Largebfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}

  {SectionNumberBox{section}}

  {0pt}

  {TitleUnderline{#1}}

titleformat{subsection}

  {largebfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}

  {SectionNumberBox{subsection}}

  {0pt}

  {TitleUnderline{#1}}



begin{document}



maketitle



section{The First Section}



begin{thebibliography}{}

bibitem{}

end{thebibliography}



end{document}



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The following defines an alternative style, that formats unnumbered sections similar to the numbered ones (it uses report and also defines chapter to be matching, just remove that and you're good to go with article). It also removes the unnecessary repetition of calling titleformat for each sectioning level by defining a shorthand macro.



documentclass{report}

usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

usepackage{xcolor}

usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}

usepackage{soul}



definecolor{titleblue}{HTML}{4a7aa4}



title{Sections and Chapters}

author{Educ}

date{today}



newlengthSectionNumberBoxPad

newcommand*TitleUnderline[1]

  {%

    begingroup

      setul{dimexprdpstrutbox+fboxsep-.3exrelax}{.3ex}%

      edefmytmp{#1}%

      expandafterulexpandafter{mytmp}%

    endgroup

  }

newcommand*SectionNumberBoxSep{TitleUnderline{   }}

newcommand*UnnumberedSectionNumberBox

  {%

    colorbox{titleblue}

      {struthspace{dimexprhtstrutbox+dpstrutbox}}%

    SectionNumberBoxSep

  }

newcommand*SectionNumberBox[1]

  {%

    colorbox{titleblue}

      {%

        begingroup

        color{white}%

        setlengthSectionNumberBoxPad{.5dimexprhtstrutbox+dpstrutbox}%

        hspace{SectionNumberBoxPad}%

        strutcsname the#1endcsname

        hspace{SectionNumberBoxPad}%

        endgroup

      }%

    SectionNumberBoxSep

  }

makeatletter

newcommand*setuptitleformat[2]

  {%

    expandaftersetuptitleformat@csname #1endcsname{#1}{#2}%

  }

newcommand*setuptitleformat@[3]

  {%

    titleformat{#1}

      {#3bfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}

      {SectionNumberBox{#2}}

      {0pt}

      {TitleUnderline{##1}}%

    titleformat{name=#1,numberless}

      {#3bfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}

      {UnnumberedSectionNumberBox}

      {0pt}

      {TitleUnderline{##1}}%

  }

makeatother

setuptitleformat{chapter}{LARGE}

setuptitleformat{section}{Large}

setuptitleformat{subsection}{large}

setuptitleformat{subsubsection}{}



setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}

setcounter{chapter}{10}

begin{document}



maketitle



chapter{The First Chapter}

section{The First Section}

subsection{The First Subsection}

subsubsection{The First Subsubsection}

Some text



begin{thebibliography}{}

bibitem{}

end{thebibliography}



end{document}


enter image description here




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This version should look identical in print, but the display of the PDF depends on the viewer (xpdf can be trusted, though; this is because using ulem the lines are built using small segments which might lead to aliasing issues on screens). It breaks automatic hyphenation, but remains line breakable. It uses the ulem package instead of the soul package. ulem should be robuster, and therefore the edef expansion is not needed with it.



documentclass{report}

usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

usepackage{xcolor}

usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}

usepackage[normalem]{ulem}



definecolor{titleblue}{HTML}{4a7aa4}



title{Sections and Chapters}

author{Educ}

date{today}



newlengthSectionNumberBoxPad

newlengthTitleUnderlineSeg

setlengthTitleUnderlineSeg{.05pt}

newcommand*TitleUnderline[1]

  {%

    bgroup

    markoverwith

      {%

        rule

          [-dimexprdpstrutbox+fboxseprelax]

          {TitleUnderlineSeg}

          {.3ex}%

      }%

    ULon{#1}%

  }

newcommand*SectionNumberBoxSep

  {%

    hspace{-TitleUnderlineSeg}%

    TitleUnderline

      {hspace{TitleUnderlineSeg}hspace{SectionNumberBoxPad}}%

  }

newcommand*UnnumberedSectionNumberBox

  {%

    begingroup

      setlengthSectionNumberBoxPad{.5dimexprhtstrutbox+dpstrutbox}%

      colorbox{titleblue}

        {struthspace{2SectionNumberBoxPad}}%

      SectionNumberBoxSep

    endgroup

  }

newcommand*SectionNumberBox[1]

  {%

    begingroup

      setlengthSectionNumberBoxPad{.5dimexprhtstrutbox+dpstrutbox}%

      colorbox{titleblue}

        {%

          begingroup

          color{white}%

          hspace{SectionNumberBoxPad}%

          strutcsname the#1endcsname

          hspace{SectionNumberBoxPad}%

          endgroup

        }%

      SectionNumberBoxSep

    endgroup

  }

makeatletter

newcommand*setuptitleformat[2]

  {%

    expandaftersetuptitleformat@csname #1endcsname{#1}{#2}%

  }

newcommand*setuptitleformat@[3]

  {%

    titleformat{#1}

      {#3bfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}

      {SectionNumberBox{#2}}

      {0pt}

      {TitleUnderline{##1}}%

    titleformat{name=#1,numberless}

      {#3bfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}

      {UnnumberedSectionNumberBox}

      {0pt}

      {TitleUnderline{##1}}%

  }

makeatother

setuptitleformat{chapter}{LARGE}

setuptitleformat{section}{Large}

setuptitleformat{subsection}{large}

setuptitleformat{subsubsection}{}



setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}

setcounter{chapter}{10}

begin{document}



maketitle



chapter{The First Chapter}

section{The First Section}

subsection{The First Subsection}

subsubsection{The First Subsubsection}

Some text

section

  {Really long section name that is really long, so long it takes two rows}



begin{thebibliography}{}

bibitem{}

end{thebibliography}



end{document}


enter image description here



The lines do align vertically with the box of the section numbers (checked with xpdf at 2000% magnification), the mismatch is due to Gimp's rasterization.






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    The problem seems the unexpanded name of the section (if I'm not mistaken). The following completely expands the given name with an edef expansion (this might produce new issues, I'm not sure). It however works for your MWE:



    documentclass{article}
    
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
    
usepackage{xcolor}
    
usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
    
usepackage{soul}
    

    
definecolor{titleblue}{HTML}{4a7aa4}
    

    
title{Sections and Chapters}
    
author{Educ}
    
date{today}
    

    
newboxTitleUnderlineTestBox
    
newcommand*TitleUnderline[1]
    
  {%
    
    bgroup
    
    setboxTitleUnderlineTestBoxhbox{colorbox{titleblue}strut}%
    
    setul{dimexprdpTitleUnderlineTestBox-.3exrelax}{.3ex}%
    
    edefmytmp{#1}%
    
    expandafterulexpandafter{mytmp}%
    
    egroup
    
  }
    
newcommand*SectionNumberBox[1]
    
  {%
    
    colorbox{titleblue}
    
      {%
    
        makebox[2.5em][c]
    
          {%
    
            color{white}%
    
            strut
    
            csname the#1endcsname
    
          }%
    
      }%
    
    TitleUnderline{   }%
    
  }
    
titleformat{section}
    
  {Largebfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}
    
  {SectionNumberBox{section}}
    
  {0pt}
    
  {TitleUnderline{#1}}
    
titleformat{subsection}
    
  {largebfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}
    
  {SectionNumberBox{subsection}}
    
  {0pt}
    
  {TitleUnderline{#1}}
    

    
begin{document}
    

    
maketitle
    

    
section{The First Section}
    

    
begin{thebibliography}{}
    
bibitem{}
    
end{thebibliography}
    

    
end{document}



    Alternative



    The following defines an alternative style, that formats unnumbered sections similar to the numbered ones (it uses report and also defines chapter to be matching, just remove that and you're good to go with article). It also removes the unnecessary repetition of calling titleformat for each sectioning level by defining a shorthand macro.



    documentclass{report}
    
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
    
usepackage{xcolor}
    
usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
    
usepackage{soul}
    

    
definecolor{titleblue}{HTML}{4a7aa4}
    

    
title{Sections and Chapters}
    
author{Educ}
    
date{today}
    

    
newlengthSectionNumberBoxPad
    
newcommand*TitleUnderline[1]
    
  {%
    
    begingroup
    
      setul{dimexprdpstrutbox+fboxsep-.3exrelax}{.3ex}%
    
      edefmytmp{#1}%
    
      expandafterulexpandafter{mytmp}%
    
    endgroup
    
  }
    
newcommand*SectionNumberBoxSep{TitleUnderline{   }}
    
newcommand*UnnumberedSectionNumberBox
    
  {%
    
    colorbox{titleblue}
    
      {struthspace{dimexprhtstrutbox+dpstrutbox}}%
    
    SectionNumberBoxSep
    
  }
    
newcommand*SectionNumberBox[1]
    
  {%
    
    colorbox{titleblue}
    
      {%
    
        begingroup
    
        color{white}%
    
        setlengthSectionNumberBoxPad{.5dimexprhtstrutbox+dpstrutbox}%
    
        hspace{SectionNumberBoxPad}%
    
        strutcsname the#1endcsname
    
        hspace{SectionNumberBoxPad}%
    
        endgroup
    
      }%
    
    SectionNumberBoxSep
    
  }
    
makeatletter
    
newcommand*setuptitleformat[2]
    
  {%
    
    expandaftersetuptitleformat@csname #1endcsname{#1}{#2}%
    
  }
    
newcommand*setuptitleformat@[3]
    
  {%
    
    titleformat{#1}
    
      {#3bfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}
    
      {SectionNumberBox{#2}}
    
      {0pt}
    
      {TitleUnderline{##1}}%
    
    titleformat{name=#1,numberless}
    
      {#3bfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}
    
      {UnnumberedSectionNumberBox}
    
      {0pt}
    
      {TitleUnderline{##1}}%
    
  }
    
makeatother
    
setuptitleformat{chapter}{LARGE}
    
setuptitleformat{section}{Large}
    
setuptitleformat{subsection}{large}
    
setuptitleformat{subsubsection}{}
    

    
setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
    
setcounter{chapter}{10}
    
begin{document}
    

    
maketitle
    

    
chapter{The First Chapter}
    
section{The First Section}
    
subsection{The First Subsection}
    
subsubsection{The First Subsubsection}
    
Some text
    

    
begin{thebibliography}{}
    
bibitem{}
    
end{thebibliography}
    

    
end{document}


    enter image description here




    Alternative 2



    This version should look identical in print, but the display of the PDF depends on the viewer (xpdf can be trusted, though; this is because using ulem the lines are built using small segments which might lead to aliasing issues on screens). It breaks automatic hyphenation, but remains line breakable. It uses the ulem package instead of the soul package. ulem should be robuster, and therefore the edef expansion is not needed with it.



    documentclass{report}
    
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
    
usepackage{xcolor}
    
usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
    
usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
    

    
definecolor{titleblue}{HTML}{4a7aa4}
    

    
title{Sections and Chapters}
    
author{Educ}
    
date{today}
    

    
newlengthSectionNumberBoxPad
    
newlengthTitleUnderlineSeg
    
setlengthTitleUnderlineSeg{.05pt}
    
newcommand*TitleUnderline[1]
    
  {%
    
    bgroup
    
    markoverwith
    
      {%
    
        rule
    
          [-dimexprdpstrutbox+fboxseprelax]
    
          {TitleUnderlineSeg}
    
          {.3ex}%
    
      }%
    
    ULon{#1}%
    
  }
    
newcommand*SectionNumberBoxSep
    
  {%
    
    hspace{-TitleUnderlineSeg}%
    
    TitleUnderline
    
      {hspace{TitleUnderlineSeg}hspace{SectionNumberBoxPad}}%
    
  }
    
newcommand*UnnumberedSectionNumberBox
    
  {%
    
    begingroup
    
      setlengthSectionNumberBoxPad{.5dimexprhtstrutbox+dpstrutbox}%
    
      colorbox{titleblue}
    
        {struthspace{2SectionNumberBoxPad}}%
    
      SectionNumberBoxSep
    
    endgroup
    
  }
    
newcommand*SectionNumberBox[1]
    
  {%
    
    begingroup
    
      setlengthSectionNumberBoxPad{.5dimexprhtstrutbox+dpstrutbox}%
    
      colorbox{titleblue}
    
        {%
    
          begingroup
    
          color{white}%
    
          hspace{SectionNumberBoxPad}%
    
          strutcsname the#1endcsname
    
          hspace{SectionNumberBoxPad}%
    
          endgroup
    
        }%
    
      SectionNumberBoxSep
    
    endgroup
    
  }
    
makeatletter
    
newcommand*setuptitleformat[2]
    
  {%
    
    expandaftersetuptitleformat@csname #1endcsname{#1}{#2}%
    
  }
    
newcommand*setuptitleformat@[3]
    
  {%
    
    titleformat{#1}
    
      {#3bfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}
    
      {SectionNumberBox{#2}}
    
      {0pt}
    
      {TitleUnderline{##1}}%
    
    titleformat{name=#1,numberless}
    
      {#3bfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}
    
      {UnnumberedSectionNumberBox}
    
      {0pt}
    
      {TitleUnderline{##1}}%
    
  }
    
makeatother
    
setuptitleformat{chapter}{LARGE}
    
setuptitleformat{section}{Large}
    
setuptitleformat{subsection}{large}
    
setuptitleformat{subsubsection}{}
    

    
setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
    
setcounter{chapter}{10}
    
begin{document}
    

    
maketitle
    

    
chapter{The First Chapter}
    
section{The First Section}
    
subsection{The First Subsection}
    
subsubsection{The First Subsubsection}
    
Some text
    
section
    
  {Really long section name that is really long, so long it takes two rows}
    

    
begin{thebibliography}{}
    
bibitem{}
    
end{thebibliography}
    

    
end{document}


    enter image description here



    The lines do align vertically with the box of the section numbers (checked with xpdf at 2000% magnification), the mismatch is due to Gimp's rasterization.






    share|improve this answer






























      1














      The problem seems the unexpanded name of the section (if I'm not mistaken). The following completely expands the given name with an edef expansion (this might produce new issues, I'm not sure). It however works for your MWE:



      documentclass{article}
      
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
      
usepackage{xcolor}
      
usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
      
usepackage{soul}
      

      
definecolor{titleblue}{HTML}{4a7aa4}
      

      
title{Sections and Chapters}
      
author{Educ}
      
date{today}
      

      
newboxTitleUnderlineTestBox
      
newcommand*TitleUnderline[1]
      
  {%
      
    bgroup
      
    setboxTitleUnderlineTestBoxhbox{colorbox{titleblue}strut}%
      
    setul{dimexprdpTitleUnderlineTestBox-.3exrelax}{.3ex}%
      
    edefmytmp{#1}%
      
    expandafterulexpandafter{mytmp}%
      
    egroup
      
  }
      
newcommand*SectionNumberBox[1]
      
  {%
      
    colorbox{titleblue}
      
      {%
      
        makebox[2.5em][c]
      
          {%
      
            color{white}%
      
            strut
      
            csname the#1endcsname
      
          }%
      
      }%
      
    TitleUnderline{   }%
      
  }
      
titleformat{section}
      
  {Largebfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}
      
  {SectionNumberBox{section}}
      
  {0pt}
      
  {TitleUnderline{#1}}
      
titleformat{subsection}
      
  {largebfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}
      
  {SectionNumberBox{subsection}}
      
  {0pt}
      
  {TitleUnderline{#1}}
      

      
begin{document}
      

      
maketitle
      

      
section{The First Section}
      

      
begin{thebibliography}{}
      
bibitem{}
      
end{thebibliography}
      

      
end{document}



      Alternative



      The following defines an alternative style, that formats unnumbered sections similar to the numbered ones (it uses report and also defines chapter to be matching, just remove that and you're good to go with article). It also removes the unnecessary repetition of calling titleformat for each sectioning level by defining a shorthand macro.



      documentclass{report}
      
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
      
usepackage{xcolor}
      
usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
      
usepackage{soul}
      

      
definecolor{titleblue}{HTML}{4a7aa4}
      

      
title{Sections and Chapters}
      
author{Educ}
      
date{today}
      

      
newlengthSectionNumberBoxPad
      
newcommand*TitleUnderline[1]
      
  {%
      
    begingroup
      
      setul{dimexprdpstrutbox+fboxsep-.3exrelax}{.3ex}%
      
      edefmytmp{#1}%
      
      expandafterulexpandafter{mytmp}%
      
    endgroup
      
  }
      
newcommand*SectionNumberBoxSep{TitleUnderline{   }}
      
newcommand*UnnumberedSectionNumberBox
      
  {%
      
    colorbox{titleblue}
      
      {struthspace{dimexprhtstrutbox+dpstrutbox}}%
      
    SectionNumberBoxSep
      
  }
      
newcommand*SectionNumberBox[1]
      
  {%
      
    colorbox{titleblue}
      
      {%
      
        begingroup
      
        color{white}%
      
        setlengthSectionNumberBoxPad{.5dimexprhtstrutbox+dpstrutbox}%
      
        hspace{SectionNumberBoxPad}%
      
        strutcsname the#1endcsname
      
        hspace{SectionNumberBoxPad}%
      
        endgroup
      
      }%
      
    SectionNumberBoxSep
      
  }
      
makeatletter
      
newcommand*setuptitleformat[2]
      
  {%
      
    expandaftersetuptitleformat@csname #1endcsname{#1}{#2}%
      
  }
      
newcommand*setuptitleformat@[3]
      
  {%
      
    titleformat{#1}
      
      {#3bfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}
      
      {SectionNumberBox{#2}}
      
      {0pt}
      
      {TitleUnderline{##1}}%
      
    titleformat{name=#1,numberless}
      
      {#3bfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}
      
      {UnnumberedSectionNumberBox}
      
      {0pt}
      
      {TitleUnderline{##1}}%
      
  }
      
makeatother
      
setuptitleformat{chapter}{LARGE}
      
setuptitleformat{section}{Large}
      
setuptitleformat{subsection}{large}
      
setuptitleformat{subsubsection}{}
      

      
setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
      
setcounter{chapter}{10}
      
begin{document}
      

      
maketitle
      

      
chapter{The First Chapter}
      
section{The First Section}
      
subsection{The First Subsection}
      
subsubsection{The First Subsubsection}
      
Some text
      

      
begin{thebibliography}{}
      
bibitem{}
      
end{thebibliography}
      

      
end{document}


      enter image description here




      Alternative 2



      This version should look identical in print, but the display of the PDF depends on the viewer (xpdf can be trusted, though; this is because using ulem the lines are built using small segments which might lead to aliasing issues on screens). It breaks automatic hyphenation, but remains line breakable. It uses the ulem package instead of the soul package. ulem should be robuster, and therefore the edef expansion is not needed with it.



      documentclass{report}
      
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
      
usepackage{xcolor}
      
usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
      
usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
      

      
definecolor{titleblue}{HTML}{4a7aa4}
      

      
title{Sections and Chapters}
      
author{Educ}
      
date{today}
      

      
newlengthSectionNumberBoxPad
      
newlengthTitleUnderlineSeg
      
setlengthTitleUnderlineSeg{.05pt}
      
newcommand*TitleUnderline[1]
      
  {%
      
    bgroup
      
    markoverwith
      
      {%
      
        rule
      
          [-dimexprdpstrutbox+fboxseprelax]
      
          {TitleUnderlineSeg}
      
          {.3ex}%
      
      }%
      
    ULon{#1}%
      
  }
      
newcommand*SectionNumberBoxSep
      
  {%
      
    hspace{-TitleUnderlineSeg}%
      
    TitleUnderline
      
      {hspace{TitleUnderlineSeg}hspace{SectionNumberBoxPad}}%
      
  }
      
newcommand*UnnumberedSectionNumberBox
      
  {%
      
    begingroup
      
      setlengthSectionNumberBoxPad{.5dimexprhtstrutbox+dpstrutbox}%
      
      colorbox{titleblue}
      
        {struthspace{2SectionNumberBoxPad}}%
      
      SectionNumberBoxSep
      
    endgroup
      
  }
      
newcommand*SectionNumberBox[1]
      
  {%
      
    begingroup
      
      setlengthSectionNumberBoxPad{.5dimexprhtstrutbox+dpstrutbox}%
      
      colorbox{titleblue}
      
        {%
      
          begingroup
      
          color{white}%
      
          hspace{SectionNumberBoxPad}%
      
          strutcsname the#1endcsname
      
          hspace{SectionNumberBoxPad}%
      
          endgroup
      
        }%
      
      SectionNumberBoxSep
      
    endgroup
      
  }
      
makeatletter
      
newcommand*setuptitleformat[2]
      
  {%
      
    expandaftersetuptitleformat@csname #1endcsname{#1}{#2}%
      
  }
      
newcommand*setuptitleformat@[3]
      
  {%
      
    titleformat{#1}
      
      {#3bfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}
      
      {SectionNumberBox{#2}}
      
      {0pt}
      
      {TitleUnderline{##1}}%
      
    titleformat{name=#1,numberless}
      
      {#3bfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}
      
      {UnnumberedSectionNumberBox}
      
      {0pt}
      
      {TitleUnderline{##1}}%
      
  }
      
makeatother
      
setuptitleformat{chapter}{LARGE}
      
setuptitleformat{section}{Large}
      
setuptitleformat{subsection}{large}
      
setuptitleformat{subsubsection}{}
      

      
setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
      
setcounter{chapter}{10}
      
begin{document}
      

      
maketitle
      

      
chapter{The First Chapter}
      
section{The First Section}
      
subsection{The First Subsection}
      
subsubsection{The First Subsubsection}
      
Some text
      
section
      
  {Really long section name that is really long, so long it takes two rows}
      

      
begin{thebibliography}{}
      
bibitem{}
      
end{thebibliography}
      

      
end{document}


      enter image description here



      The lines do align vertically with the box of the section numbers (checked with xpdf at 2000% magnification), the mismatch is due to Gimp's rasterization.






      share|improve this answer




























        1












        1








        1







        The problem seems the unexpanded name of the section (if I'm not mistaken). The following completely expands the given name with an edef expansion (this might produce new issues, I'm not sure). It however works for your MWE:



        documentclass{article}
        
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
        
usepackage{xcolor}
        
usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
        
usepackage{soul}
        

        
definecolor{titleblue}{HTML}{4a7aa4}
        

        
title{Sections and Chapters}
        
author{Educ}
        
date{today}
        

        
newboxTitleUnderlineTestBox
        
newcommand*TitleUnderline[1]
        
  {%
        
    bgroup
        
    setboxTitleUnderlineTestBoxhbox{colorbox{titleblue}strut}%
        
    setul{dimexprdpTitleUnderlineTestBox-.3exrelax}{.3ex}%
        
    edefmytmp{#1}%
        
    expandafterulexpandafter{mytmp}%
        
    egroup
        
  }
        
newcommand*SectionNumberBox[1]
        
  {%
        
    colorbox{titleblue}
        
      {%
        
        makebox[2.5em][c]
        
          {%
        
            color{white}%
        
            strut
        
            csname the#1endcsname
        
          }%
        
      }%
        
    TitleUnderline{   }%
        
  }
        
titleformat{section}
        
  {Largebfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}
        
  {SectionNumberBox{section}}
        
  {0pt}
        
  {TitleUnderline{#1}}
        
titleformat{subsection}
        
  {largebfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}
        
  {SectionNumberBox{subsection}}
        
  {0pt}
        
  {TitleUnderline{#1}}
        

        
begin{document}
        

        
maketitle
        

        
section{The First Section}
        

        
begin{thebibliography}{}
        
bibitem{}
        
end{thebibliography}
        

        
end{document}



        Alternative



        The following defines an alternative style, that formats unnumbered sections similar to the numbered ones (it uses report and also defines chapter to be matching, just remove that and you're good to go with article). It also removes the unnecessary repetition of calling titleformat for each sectioning level by defining a shorthand macro.



        documentclass{report}
        
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
        
usepackage{xcolor}
        
usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
        
usepackage{soul}
        

        
definecolor{titleblue}{HTML}{4a7aa4}
        

        
title{Sections and Chapters}
        
author{Educ}
        
date{today}
        

        
newlengthSectionNumberBoxPad
        
newcommand*TitleUnderline[1]
        
  {%
        
    begingroup
        
      setul{dimexprdpstrutbox+fboxsep-.3exrelax}{.3ex}%
        
      edefmytmp{#1}%
        
      expandafterulexpandafter{mytmp}%
        
    endgroup
        
  }
        
newcommand*SectionNumberBoxSep{TitleUnderline{   }}
        
newcommand*UnnumberedSectionNumberBox
        
  {%
        
    colorbox{titleblue}
        
      {struthspace{dimexprhtstrutbox+dpstrutbox}}%
        
    SectionNumberBoxSep
        
  }
        
newcommand*SectionNumberBox[1]
        
  {%
        
    colorbox{titleblue}
        
      {%
        
        begingroup
        
        color{white}%
        
        setlengthSectionNumberBoxPad{.5dimexprhtstrutbox+dpstrutbox}%
        
        hspace{SectionNumberBoxPad}%
        
        strutcsname the#1endcsname
        
        hspace{SectionNumberBoxPad}%
        
        endgroup
        
      }%
        
    SectionNumberBoxSep
        
  }
        
makeatletter
        
newcommand*setuptitleformat[2]
        
  {%
        
    expandaftersetuptitleformat@csname #1endcsname{#1}{#2}%
        
  }
        
newcommand*setuptitleformat@[3]
        
  {%
        
    titleformat{#1}
        
      {#3bfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}
        
      {SectionNumberBox{#2}}
        
      {0pt}
        
      {TitleUnderline{##1}}%
        
    titleformat{name=#1,numberless}
        
      {#3bfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}
        
      {UnnumberedSectionNumberBox}
        
      {0pt}
        
      {TitleUnderline{##1}}%
        
  }
        
makeatother
        
setuptitleformat{chapter}{LARGE}
        
setuptitleformat{section}{Large}
        
setuptitleformat{subsection}{large}
        
setuptitleformat{subsubsection}{}
        

        
setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
        
setcounter{chapter}{10}
        
begin{document}
        

        
maketitle
        

        
chapter{The First Chapter}
        
section{The First Section}
        
subsection{The First Subsection}
        
subsubsection{The First Subsubsection}
        
Some text
        

        
begin{thebibliography}{}
        
bibitem{}
        
end{thebibliography}
        

        
end{document}


        enter image description here




        Alternative 2



        This version should look identical in print, but the display of the PDF depends on the viewer (xpdf can be trusted, though; this is because using ulem the lines are built using small segments which might lead to aliasing issues on screens). It breaks automatic hyphenation, but remains line breakable. It uses the ulem package instead of the soul package. ulem should be robuster, and therefore the edef expansion is not needed with it.



        documentclass{report}
        
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
        
usepackage{xcolor}
        
usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
        
usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
        

        
definecolor{titleblue}{HTML}{4a7aa4}
        

        
title{Sections and Chapters}
        
author{Educ}
        
date{today}
        

        
newlengthSectionNumberBoxPad
        
newlengthTitleUnderlineSeg
        
setlengthTitleUnderlineSeg{.05pt}
        
newcommand*TitleUnderline[1]
        
  {%
        
    bgroup
        
    markoverwith
        
      {%
        
        rule
        
          [-dimexprdpstrutbox+fboxseprelax]
        
          {TitleUnderlineSeg}
        
          {.3ex}%
        
      }%
        
    ULon{#1}%
        
  }
        
newcommand*SectionNumberBoxSep
        
  {%
        
    hspace{-TitleUnderlineSeg}%
        
    TitleUnderline
        
      {hspace{TitleUnderlineSeg}hspace{SectionNumberBoxPad}}%
        
  }
        
newcommand*UnnumberedSectionNumberBox
        
  {%
        
    begingroup
        
      setlengthSectionNumberBoxPad{.5dimexprhtstrutbox+dpstrutbox}%
        
      colorbox{titleblue}
        
        {struthspace{2SectionNumberBoxPad}}%
        
      SectionNumberBoxSep
        
    endgroup
        
  }
        
newcommand*SectionNumberBox[1]
        
  {%
        
    begingroup
        
      setlengthSectionNumberBoxPad{.5dimexprhtstrutbox+dpstrutbox}%
        
      colorbox{titleblue}
        
        {%
        
          begingroup
        
          color{white}%
        
          hspace{SectionNumberBoxPad}%
        
          strutcsname the#1endcsname
        
          hspace{SectionNumberBoxPad}%
        
          endgroup
        
        }%
        
      SectionNumberBoxSep
        
    endgroup
        
  }
        
makeatletter
        
newcommand*setuptitleformat[2]
        
  {%
        
    expandaftersetuptitleformat@csname #1endcsname{#1}{#2}%
        
  }
        
newcommand*setuptitleformat@[3]
        
  {%
        
    titleformat{#1}
        
      {#3bfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}
        
      {SectionNumberBox{#2}}
        
      {0pt}
        
      {TitleUnderline{##1}}%
        
    titleformat{name=#1,numberless}
        
      {#3bfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}
        
      {UnnumberedSectionNumberBox}
        
      {0pt}
        
      {TitleUnderline{##1}}%
        
  }
        
makeatother
        
setuptitleformat{chapter}{LARGE}
        
setuptitleformat{section}{Large}
        
setuptitleformat{subsection}{large}
        
setuptitleformat{subsubsection}{}
        

        
setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
        
setcounter{chapter}{10}
        
begin{document}
        

        
maketitle
        

        
chapter{The First Chapter}
        
section{The First Section}
        
subsection{The First Subsection}
        
subsubsection{The First Subsubsection}
        
Some text
        
section
        
  {Really long section name that is really long, so long it takes two rows}
        

        
begin{thebibliography}{}
        
bibitem{}
        
end{thebibliography}
        

        
end{document}


        enter image description here



        The lines do align vertically with the box of the section numbers (checked with xpdf at 2000% magnification), the mismatch is due to Gimp's rasterization.






        share|improve this answer















        The problem seems the unexpanded name of the section (if I'm not mistaken). The following completely expands the given name with an edef expansion (this might produce new issues, I'm not sure). It however works for your MWE:



        documentclass{article}
        
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
        
usepackage{xcolor}
        
usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
        
usepackage{soul}
        

        
definecolor{titleblue}{HTML}{4a7aa4}
        

        
title{Sections and Chapters}
        
author{Educ}
        
date{today}
        

        
newboxTitleUnderlineTestBox
        
newcommand*TitleUnderline[1]
        
  {%
        
    bgroup
        
    setboxTitleUnderlineTestBoxhbox{colorbox{titleblue}strut}%
        
    setul{dimexprdpTitleUnderlineTestBox-.3exrelax}{.3ex}%
        
    edefmytmp{#1}%
        
    expandafterulexpandafter{mytmp}%
        
    egroup
        
  }
        
newcommand*SectionNumberBox[1]
        
  {%
        
    colorbox{titleblue}
        
      {%
        
        makebox[2.5em][c]
        
          {%
        
            color{white}%
        
            strut
        
            csname the#1endcsname
        
          }%
        
      }%
        
    TitleUnderline{   }%
        
  }
        
titleformat{section}
        
  {Largebfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}
        
  {SectionNumberBox{section}}
        
  {0pt}
        
  {TitleUnderline{#1}}
        
titleformat{subsection}
        
  {largebfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}
        
  {SectionNumberBox{subsection}}
        
  {0pt}
        
  {TitleUnderline{#1}}
        

        
begin{document}
        

        
maketitle
        

        
section{The First Section}
        

        
begin{thebibliography}{}
        
bibitem{}
        
end{thebibliography}
        

        
end{document}



        Alternative



        The following defines an alternative style, that formats unnumbered sections similar to the numbered ones (it uses report and also defines chapter to be matching, just remove that and you're good to go with article). It also removes the unnecessary repetition of calling titleformat for each sectioning level by defining a shorthand macro.



        documentclass{report}
        
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
        
usepackage{xcolor}
        
usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
        
usepackage{soul}
        

        
definecolor{titleblue}{HTML}{4a7aa4}
        

        
title{Sections and Chapters}
        
author{Educ}
        
date{today}
        

        
newlengthSectionNumberBoxPad
        
newcommand*TitleUnderline[1]
        
  {%
        
    begingroup
        
      setul{dimexprdpstrutbox+fboxsep-.3exrelax}{.3ex}%
        
      edefmytmp{#1}%
        
      expandafterulexpandafter{mytmp}%
        
    endgroup
        
  }
        
newcommand*SectionNumberBoxSep{TitleUnderline{   }}
        
newcommand*UnnumberedSectionNumberBox
        
  {%
        
    colorbox{titleblue}
        
      {struthspace{dimexprhtstrutbox+dpstrutbox}}%
        
    SectionNumberBoxSep
        
  }
        
newcommand*SectionNumberBox[1]
        
  {%
        
    colorbox{titleblue}
        
      {%
        
        begingroup
        
        color{white}%
        
        setlengthSectionNumberBoxPad{.5dimexprhtstrutbox+dpstrutbox}%
        
        hspace{SectionNumberBoxPad}%
        
        strutcsname the#1endcsname
        
        hspace{SectionNumberBoxPad}%
        
        endgroup
        
      }%
        
    SectionNumberBoxSep
        
  }
        
makeatletter
        
newcommand*setuptitleformat[2]
        
  {%
        
    expandaftersetuptitleformat@csname #1endcsname{#1}{#2}%
        
  }
        
newcommand*setuptitleformat@[3]
        
  {%
        
    titleformat{#1}
        
      {#3bfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}
        
      {SectionNumberBox{#2}}
        
      {0pt}
        
      {TitleUnderline{##1}}%
        
    titleformat{name=#1,numberless}
        
      {#3bfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}
        
      {UnnumberedSectionNumberBox}
        
      {0pt}
        
      {TitleUnderline{##1}}%
        
  }
        
makeatother
        
setuptitleformat{chapter}{LARGE}
        
setuptitleformat{section}{Large}
        
setuptitleformat{subsection}{large}
        
setuptitleformat{subsubsection}{}
        

        
setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
        
setcounter{chapter}{10}
        
begin{document}
        

        
maketitle
        

        
chapter{The First Chapter}
        
section{The First Section}
        
subsection{The First Subsection}
        
subsubsection{The First Subsubsection}
        
Some text
        

        
begin{thebibliography}{}
        
bibitem{}
        
end{thebibliography}
        

        
end{document}


        enter image description here




        Alternative 2



        This version should look identical in print, but the display of the PDF depends on the viewer (xpdf can be trusted, though; this is because using ulem the lines are built using small segments which might lead to aliasing issues on screens). It breaks automatic hyphenation, but remains line breakable. It uses the ulem package instead of the soul package. ulem should be robuster, and therefore the edef expansion is not needed with it.



        documentclass{report}
        
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
        
usepackage{xcolor}
        
usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
        
usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
        

        
definecolor{titleblue}{HTML}{4a7aa4}
        

        
title{Sections and Chapters}
        
author{Educ}
        
date{today}
        

        
newlengthSectionNumberBoxPad
        
newlengthTitleUnderlineSeg
        
setlengthTitleUnderlineSeg{.05pt}
        
newcommand*TitleUnderline[1]
        
  {%
        
    bgroup
        
    markoverwith
        
      {%
        
        rule
        
          [-dimexprdpstrutbox+fboxseprelax]
        
          {TitleUnderlineSeg}
        
          {.3ex}%
        
      }%
        
    ULon{#1}%
        
  }
        
newcommand*SectionNumberBoxSep
        
  {%
        
    hspace{-TitleUnderlineSeg}%
        
    TitleUnderline
        
      {hspace{TitleUnderlineSeg}hspace{SectionNumberBoxPad}}%
        
  }
        
newcommand*UnnumberedSectionNumberBox
        
  {%
        
    begingroup
        
      setlengthSectionNumberBoxPad{.5dimexprhtstrutbox+dpstrutbox}%
        
      colorbox{titleblue}
        
        {struthspace{2SectionNumberBoxPad}}%
        
      SectionNumberBoxSep
        
    endgroup
        
  }
        
newcommand*SectionNumberBox[1]
        
  {%
        
    begingroup
        
      setlengthSectionNumberBoxPad{.5dimexprhtstrutbox+dpstrutbox}%
        
      colorbox{titleblue}
        
        {%
        
          begingroup
        
          color{white}%
        
          hspace{SectionNumberBoxPad}%
        
          strutcsname the#1endcsname
        
          hspace{SectionNumberBoxPad}%
        
          endgroup
        
        }%
        
      SectionNumberBoxSep
        
    endgroup
        
  }
        
makeatletter
        
newcommand*setuptitleformat[2]
        
  {%
        
    expandaftersetuptitleformat@csname #1endcsname{#1}{#2}%
        
  }
        
newcommand*setuptitleformat@[3]
        
  {%
        
    titleformat{#1}
        
      {#3bfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}
        
      {SectionNumberBox{#2}}
        
      {0pt}
        
      {TitleUnderline{##1}}%
        
    titleformat{name=#1,numberless}
        
      {#3bfseriessffamilycolor{titleblue}}
        
      {UnnumberedSectionNumberBox}
        
      {0pt}
        
      {TitleUnderline{##1}}%
        
  }
        
makeatother
        
setuptitleformat{chapter}{LARGE}
        
setuptitleformat{section}{Large}
        
setuptitleformat{subsection}{large}
        
setuptitleformat{subsubsection}{}
        

        
setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
        
setcounter{chapter}{10}
        
begin{document}
        

        
maketitle
        

        
chapter{The First Chapter}
        
section{The First Section}
        
subsection{The First Subsection}
        
subsubsection{The First Subsubsection}
        
Some text
        
section
        
  {Really long section name that is really long, so long it takes two rows}
        

        
begin{thebibliography}{}
        
bibitem{}
        
end{thebibliography}
        

        
end{document}


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        The lines do align vertically with the box of the section numbers (checked with xpdf at 2000% magnification), the mismatch is due to Gimp's rasterization.







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