%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
%%
%% Example 2-3-12 on page I-68 in "Generating partial table of contents lists".
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{159.0pt}
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{titlesec,titletoc}
\titleformat{\section}[frame]{\normalfont}
    {\footnotesize \enspace SECTION \thesection
     \enspace}{6pt}{\large\bfseries\filcenter}
    [\vspace*{5pt}\startcontents
     \printcontents{p-}{2}{\contentsmargin{0pt}}]
\titlespacing*{\section}{1pc}{*4}{*2.3}[1pc]
\titlecontents*{p-subsection}[0pt]
    {\small\itshape\fillast}{}{}{}[ --- ][.]
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\section{A Title Test}
Some text to prove that this paragraph is not indented.
\subsection{A first}  Some text      \ldots \newpage
\subsection{A longer second} Some more text.
\stopcontents  \subsection{A third}  \resumecontents
\subsection{An even longer fourth}
\end{document}