Page Layout ⇒ Changing section number formatting

[melwil]

Hi,

I was wondering how I could change \section{section title} output from

"1 section title"

to

"001 section title"


I tried asking around a bit, and titlesec + fmtcount should do the job (somehow). I can not figure out how to do it though.
Anyone got a clue how to achieve it?

[localghost]

It requires a redefinition of the command that formats the section counter. See code below for a complete example.

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\documentclass{article}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\thesection}{%
  \ifnum \c@section<100 0\fi \ifnum \c@section<10 0\fi \@arabic\c@section
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
  \section{Test}

  \setcounter{section}{9}
  \section{Test}

  \setcounter{section}{99}
  \section{Test}
\end{document}

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[melwil]

wow, worked perfectly! =D

thanks for the welcome and help, that was a very good solution and a quick reply. I feel that I am going to love it here =)