General ⇒ prefix section/subsection numbering with a letter

[fetchinson]

Hi all,

I am required to have a special numbering of sections and subsections in my document. There needs to be a letter B in front of every section/subsection number, but otherwise the numbering scheme should be the usual one. So it should go like this: B1, B1.1, B1.2, B1.3, B2, B2.1, B2.2, etc, etc, and the letter B should appear also on the table of contents.

How would I go about this?

[pumpkinegan]

Renew the section counter (the subsection does not need to be changed):

\renewcommand{\thesection}{B\arabic{section}}

[fetchinson]

So easy? Thanks a lot!

It works great, but this solution gave me another problem, please bear with me. At the bottom of every page I need to have the text "Part B 5 of 20" for instance if the page number is 5 and the total number of pages is 20. I achieved this by

\renewcommand{\thepage}{Part B \hspace{11cm} Page \arabic{page} of 20}

After using your solution for the section number prefixing the "Part B 5 of 20" stuff appears in the table of contents for each section, which is not what I need. So the table of contents should use normal page numbering but the bottom of each page should have this "Part B 5 of 20" stuff.

Any ideas?

[fetchinson]

Actually, I found a solution in case someone else is also interested:

\pagestyle{fancy}
\cfoot[\thepage]{Part B \hfill Page \thepage \hspace{0.05cm} of 20}

The only thing missing is that the total number of pages is hardwired to 20, I guess it's possible to have that filled in automatically. If not that's also okay, I can just add it when the document is ready and I know the total number.

[fetchinson]

This is also not very difficult it turns out:

\usepackage{lastpage}
\cfoot[\thepage]{Part B \hfill Page \thepage \hspace{0.05cm} of \pageref{LastPage}}

Isn't that great?

[pumpkinegan]

\cfoot[\thepage]{Part B \hfill Page \thepage \hspace{0.05cm} of \pageref{LastPage}}

The \hspace is probably not the best thing use do after \thepage (a LaTeX command that eats up the spaces after it). To keep a space after \thepage (and other LaTeX commands) use:

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\cfoot[\thepage]{Part B \hfill Page \thepage\ of \pageref{LastPage}}

[fetchinson]

Thanks a lot, this indeed works nicely!