Text Formatting ⇒ \backmatter chapter gets absorbed by preceding chapter ??!

[AleCes]

For such numbering fixes the chngcntr package is usually a good tool.

Stefan

I tried:

\usepackage{chngcntr}
...
\newcounter{section}

But I get the following error:

! LaTeX Error: Command \c@section already defined.
Or name \end... illegal, see p.192 of the manual.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Don't use \newcounter, as the counters are already defined. Instead, use \counterwithin or \counterwithout, for binding or removing counters to chapters, that's the main purpose.

Btw. if you rely on a section counter being reset by a new unnumbered chapter, you could step the chapter counter, invisibly, by \refstepcounter{chapter} which also resets the section counter if numbered per chapter.

Stefan

[AleCes]

With \counterwithin{section} I get the same error reported above.
With \refstepcounter{chapter} I get:

! Package chngcntr Error: L is not a counter.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

\counterwithin requires two arguments, such as \counterwithin{section}{chapter}.

Stefan

[AleCes]

\counterwithin requires two arguments, such as \counterwithin{section}{chapter}.

Stefan

But this way I get section and subsection numbers preceded by the chapter, the very thing I'd excluded by default in the prologue:

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\usepackage{titlesec}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{4}
\renewcommand*{\thesection}{\arabic{section}}
\renewcommand*{\thesubsubsection}{\alph{subsubsection}}
\titleformat{\subsection}[runin]{\normalfont\bfseries}{\thesubsection}{0.5em}{}[\quad]
\titleformat{\subsubsection}[runin]{\normalfont\bfseries}{\thesubsubsection)}{0.5em}{}[\qquad]