Page Layout ⇒ How do create section numbering using a, b, c etc instead of numbers?

[mcsentas]

How do create section numbering using a, b, c etc instead of numbers?

\section{Chapter} -- Appears a 1.

\subsection{My sub chapter} --Appears as 1.a 1.b etc

[Johannes_B]

Well, to begin with, a section is a section, not a chapter. \chapter{Chapter title} would produce a chapter.

You can probably use \renewcommand{\thesection}{\alph{section}}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

If you really use \section for chapters (low profile chapters in a shorter document), then this would be a way:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{chngcntr}
\counterwithin*{subsection}{section}
\renewcommand{\thesubsection}{\thesection.\alph{subsection}}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\section{Chapter}
\subsection{My sub chapter}
\section{Another Chapter}
\subsection{First sub chapter}
\subsection{Second sub chapter}
\end{document}

Stefan

[Courtney McDaniel]

It's great, it seems that the numbering was shifted from the very beginning, now I wanna to repeat it for other documents