Text Formatting ⇒ Theorem numbering - roman vs. alpha

[merlyn]

I have been working on trying to find a method to change the label for theorems from the arbic numbers to alpa letters. I currently have the following two lines to define two shadetheorems:

\newshadetheorem{question}{Question}
\newshadetheorem{Qpart}{Scenario}[question]

and the out put is close to what I want:

Question 2 text text text....
Scenario 2.1 text text text...
Scenario 2.2 text text text...

What I would like is this:

Question 2 text text text....
Scenario 2.a text text text...
Scenario 2.b text text text...

I have tried a couple different things, but either no effect on the out put or there is a compile issue. The two things I have tried are:

\renewcommand{\labelQpart}{(\alph{Qpart})}

(compile error)

and

\renewcommand\theQpart{
\ifnum\value{question}>0 \thequestion\fi \alph{\value{Qpart}}}

(compiles fine, but there is no change in the output).

Thanks for the help!

[olofos]

It seems like the counter actually used by the shadethm package is called "shadeQpart", so you need to define "\theshadeQpart", so something like

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\renewcommand{\theshadeQpart}{\ifnum\value{shadequestion}>0 \thequestion\ \fi\alph{shadeQpart}}

Note that \alph should be given the name of the counter. I'm not sure what the test is supposed to do. The shadequestion counter will be positive at any point after the first question environment is started. Maybe you could give us an example on what you want to do. Preferably with some complete, compilable coce.

[merlyn]

The 'if' statement was unneeded, the name of the counter for the shade theorem was the biggest issue. Thank you!

The code in the preamble is:

\newshadetheorem{question}{Question}
\newshadetheorem{Qpart}{Scenario}[question]
\renewcommand{\theshadeQpart}{\thequestion.\alph{shadeQpart}}

then we have in the document itself, the abbreviated text is:

\begin{question}
For each of the following scenarios ....
\end{question}

\begin{Qpart} %2.a
An experiment is designed to compare the effects of four......
\end{Qpart}

The best name to give this design....

\begin{Qpart} %2.b
A Forest Science department is designing
\end{Qpart}



A screen shot of the result is attached.