Page Layout ⇒ amsart | Random Full Stop with additional Subsection

[dekerr]

Hi,

I am using document class amsart to write up my thesis. I have been using section/subsections. When I put in a new subsection the first paragraph starts with a full stop and I'm not sure where it has come from and how to get rid of it.

Just wondering if anyone knows how I could get rid of it?

Many thanks

[kaiserkarl13]

That's the style for the amsart class (which I presume means "American Mathematical Society Article). If you want to remove the period, you can (a) use a different document class (such as "article" or "report"), or (b) redefine the command that produces the punctuation at the end of the sectioning commands, like so:

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\makeatletter
\def\@addpunct#1{%
  \relax\ifhmode
    \ifnum\spacefactor>\@m \else\fi
  \fi}
\makeatother

I take no responsibility for the above code (lines 61-64 of amsart.cls, with the "#1" omitted), or anything it breaks as a side effect.

I recommend option (a); the amsart class is not intended in any way to be used for a thesis. I'd recommend the "report" class, if your school doesn't have its own document class that does the formatting the way they want it. If it's a short document (i.e., no chapters), then "article" is better than "report"; most theses should use "report" or a variant on it.