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I would like to do redefine the section title command by enclosing it with ornaments like the following:

~ornament~ SectionTitle ~ornament~

I had looked up the titlesec documentation and many more example on how to redefine titles without any clues on how to add text after the title.

The aim is to add text in the section title after the thesection command.

tldr;

I find out how to redefine section to do that:

~ornament~ SectionTitle

but not how to do that:

~ornament~ SectionTitle ~ornament~

The following seems to be what you're after; you can redefine secornament to be/use whatever you want.

documentclass{article}



usepackage{xparse}



newcommand{secornament}{$clubsuit$}

newcommand{secornamentstyle}{}



letoldsectionsection

RenewDocumentCommand{section}{ s o m }{%

  IfBooleanTF{#1}

    {oldsection*{secornamentstyle{#3}}}% section*{...}

    {IfValueTF{#2}

       {oldsection[#2]{secornamentstyle{#3}}}% section[..]{...}

       {oldsection[#3]{secornamentstyle{#3}}}% section{...}

    }%

}



begin{document}



% Keep secornamentstyle to do nothing, otherwise tableofcontents would set

% section*{Contents} using the ornaments

tableofcontents



renewcommand{secornamentstyle}[1]{secornament~#1~secornament}

section{A section}

section*{Unnumbered section}



end{document}

section is redefined using xparse for ease of distinguishing between the optional starred * version and optional arguments.