Get a regular text line formatted as a section heading

Question

Imagine that I need to place inside the text an example of how a section heading looks like. I.e. I need to format a line of text exactly the way a section heading is formatted, but without starting a new section.
The best I could do is this:
documentclass[12pt, paper = B5]{scrbook}

usepackage{xcolor}

KOMAoptions{headings = big}
addtokomafont{section}{color{red}}

begin{document}

section*{Real section heading}

Here is how section  heading looks like:

usekomafont{section}
sectionlinesformat{section}{0pt}{}{Simulated section heading}

end{document}

Which produce this:

and is not what I want. It misses the font settings, beforeskip, and afterskip.
Any ideas?

esdd · Accepted Answer

You are missing usekomafont{disposition}. The space before and after headings are not inserted by sectionlinesformat. You would have to insert them manually.
But you could define a new heading command with the same settings as section:
documentclass[12pt, paper = B5]{scrbook}
usepackage{xcolor}

KOMAoptions{headings = big}
addtokomafont{section}{color{red}}

makeatletter
DeclareNewSectionCommand[
  style=section,
  level=sectionnumdepth,
  tocstyle=gobble,% there will be no ToC entry
  beforeskip=scr@section@beforeskip,
  afterskip=scr@section@afterskip,
  font=usekomafont{section},
  ]{mysection}
makeatother

begin{document}
Some text

section*{Real section heading}
Here is how section heading looks like:
mysection*{Simulated section heading}
More text

end{document}

mysection or mysection* will not reset counters and not change or clear running heads.

Get a regular text line formatted as a section heading

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