General ⇒ Custom section counter in LNCS format

[bomberb17]

Hello,
I'm writing my manustript on LCNS format, and I want to divide my document into two parts, the first part would use as section counters A1, A2, etc. and the second part would use section counters B1, B2 etc..
I've searched around but couldn't find a solution.. Any ideas on this? Thanks!

[Johannes_B]

Have you checked with Springer? They decide over the layout.

[bomberb17]

This is a bit "unofficial" so I have flexibility. Just want to know how to do this in latex code

[Ijon Tichy]

With standard classes this can be done redefining \thesection resp. \thechapter. But I do not know how to do it with the class you are using. Please add a link to the class and a minimal working example if it does not work.

[bomberb17]

Here's a MWE

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\documentclass{llncs}

\begin{document}
\title{My document}

\maketitle             

\noindent\Large\textbf{Section A}
\normalsize
\section{This should be section A1}

blah blah blah 
\section{This should be section A2}
\subsection{This should be subsection A2.1}

\noindent\Large\textbf{Section B}
\normalsize
\setcounter{section}{0}
\section{This should be section B1}

blah blah blah 
\section{This should be section B2}
\subsection{This should be subsection B2.1}

\end{document}

[Johannes_B]

You did not provide a link to the class, so i used some version that was on my hard drive from sometime in the past.

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\documentclass{llncs}
 
\begin{document}
\title{My document}
 
\newcounter{Section}
\renewcommand{\theSection}{\Alph{Section}}
\renewcommand{\thesection}{\theSection\arabic{section}}
\newcommand{\Section}{\refstepcounter{Section}\setcounter{section}{0}\bigskip\noindent\Large\textbf{Section~\theSection}\par\normalsize}
\maketitle             
 
\Section
\section{This should be section A1}
 
blah blah blah 
\section{This should be section A2}
\subsection{This should be subsection A2.1}
 
\Section
\section{This should be section B1}
 
blah blah blah 
\section{This should be section B2}
\subsection{This should be subsection B2.1}
 
\end{document}