[texhax] newb question - line after section heading

[Uwe Lueck]

"Steve Schwartz" <s.schwartz at imperial.ac.uk>, 10.02.2011 17:52:14:
> On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 07:58 +0000, Joe P King wrote:
>> My code is, I am using the packages that a friend recommended but
>> there might be a conflict, I am using my abstract as testing page, I
>> centered the first line so I can see the spacing better:
[...]
> There are at least 3 \usepackage{titlesec} calls in your preamble. 

Even with the search function, I only find \usepackage[small,compact]{titlesec}
and \usepackage{titlesec}.

> And with so many packages it's difficult to easily test which might be conflicting.

There isn't really a conflict, apart from perhaps that parskip.sty increases \parskip 
to an "unusual" amount. The \titlespacing command may be changed to make 
up for this.

Cheers, 

    Uwe.