General ⇒ section numbering

[omkardpd]

Hi,

I am using \setcounter{section}{0}. However, I am getting section numbers as 0.1, 0.2 and so on....But I want them to be 1, 2, 3.... I don't want them to be in decimal format. Any suggestion?

Thank you,

Omkar

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Omkar,

I understand you mean subsection numbers by 0.1, 0.2 and so on because you said you set section to 0. I think it's unusual to use subsections as highest sectioning level, perhaps you could consider to use \section instead. If the appearance of section does not meet your requirements it could be changed.

Back to the appearance of the subsection numbers, you can change it by redefining \thesubsection:

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\renewcommand*\thesubsection{\arabic{subsection}}

Stefan

[omkardpd]

Hi Stefen,

Let me make it clear. I have 5 chapters for my "Book". Apart from those 5 chapters, I am have an abstract to start the document. I don't want to call the abstract as a chapter. However, the abstract has sections (not subsections) which I want to number as 1, 2, 3 and so on. Further in the chapters from 1-5 I want the usual numbering style, i.e. first section of chapter 1 should be numbered 1.1 and so on. I don't think I have been able to get that.

Can you please suggest a way?

Thank you,

Omkar

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Omkar,

of course that's possible. From your first posting I had to understand with section 0 and numbering 0.1, 0.2 that there would be no chapters, so I had to guess that it's an article-like class numbered section.subsection.

Actually you can write at the beginning of the abstract or before:

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\renewcommand*\thesection{\arabic{section}}

Now the section numbers are displayed without the chapter number that's still 0 at this point.
After the abstract you can restore the default behaviour by:

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\renewcommand*\thesection{\thechapter.\arabic{section}}

Stefan

[omkardpd]

Hi Stefan,

This is working absolutely fine now. Thanks for the prompt input.

May I request you take a look at my earlier post, "adjusting figures"? Hope I am not wasting your time. I am still struggling with this weird issue of importing figures in latex.

Regards,

Omkar

[Stefan Kottwitz]

May I request you take a look at my earlier post, "adjusting figures"? Hope I am not wasting your time.

No problem, I will have a look again. I was just busy with some other things and did not think of the topic. I will be there again in some minutes.

Stefan