Text Formatting ⇒ hide chapter number from section title

[bischoff]

Hi everyone,

I have been googling and reading for hours trying to find a solution to this problem. I am putting together a book using latex, and the book is separated into 5 main chapters. In each chapter there are 5-10 subchapters. However, the person I am doing this for want the subchapters to increase throughout the book (so chapter 4) would begin with a section 18. I guess I can use the \setcounter command to do that. However, I do not want the chapter number so be visible infront of the section number. For example: "18 Effectivity" instead of "4.18 Effectivity".

How do I go around to fix this?

Any help is appreciated!

Bischoff

[gmedina]

Hi,

add the following lines to the preamble of your document:

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\usepackage{chngcntr}
\counterwithout{section}{chapter}

[bischoff]

Thank you very much!

[localghost]

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Thorsten