General ⇒ How to set \subsubsubsection in my document

[chandangiri]

I am preparing one document as follows:

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\documentclass{article}

\newcounter{subsubsubsection}[subsubsection]
\def\subsubsubsectionmark#1{}
\def\thesubsubsubsection {\thesubsubsection 
     .\arabic{subsubsubsection}}
\def\subsubsubsection{\@startsection
     {subsubsubsection}{4}{\z@} {-3.25ex plus -1
     ex minus -.2ex}{1.5ex plus .2ex}{\normalsize\bf}}
\def\l@subsubsubsection{\@dottedtocline{4}{4.8em}
     {4.2em}}

\begin{document}

\section{AAA}
\subsection{BBB}
\subsubsection{cccc}
\subsubsubsection{dddd}


\end{document}

The file is not comiling correctly. Can't I use \subsubsubsection like that? Please help.

[Juanjo]

In addition to \part, \section, \subsection and \subsubsection, in the article document class, there exist the predefined commands \paragraph and \subparagraph. Give them a try before defining new sectioning commands.

[spiegboy]

you can get a subsubsubsec by defining a new list environment.

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\newcounter{subcount}
\newenvironment{mysub}
{\begin{list}
{\textbf{\thesubsubsection.\arabic{subcount}}}
{\setlength{\itemindent}{2.2em}
\setlength{\rightmargin}{.6in}
\setlength{\labelwidth}{1in}
\setlength{\labelsep}{.2in}
\setlength{\parsep}{.5ex plus .2ex minus .1ex}
\setlength{\itemsep}{0ex plus .2ex minus 0ex}
\usecounter{subcount}}
}

[Juanjo]

The code in the first post does not work since all the subsubsubsection stuff should be in between the \makeatletter and \makeatother commands. By the way, the \bf command is obsolete and \subsubsubsectionmark is not needed, since no pagestyle contains that command (not at least the standard ones).

Before introducing a new sectioning command in an article, in my opinion, one should consider other alternatives:

1) Move to the book or report classes. The \chapter command provides a new level.
2) Use \part.
3) Try \paragraph.
4) Reorganize the document.

If finally one really needs a new numbered level behaving like \section and like, the simplest approach is to redefine \paragraph and increment the counters secnumdepth and tocdeph, as the following example shows:

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\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\paragraph}{\@startsection{paragraph}{4}{0ex}%
   {-3.25ex plus -1ex minus -0.2ex}%
   {1.5ex plus 0.2ex}%
   {\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}}
\makeatother

\stepcounter{secnumdepth}
\stepcounter{tocdepth}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\section{Section title}
\subsection{Subsection title}
\subsubsection{Subsubsection title}
\paragraph{Paragraph title}
\blindtext

\end{document}

[psrivats]

Juanjo, thanks for your suggestion--it works very well. I have a related issue that is driving me crazy.

I structure my report using \section, \subsection, \subsubsection and \paragraph commands. I like the paragraphs, but the paragraph numbering usually continues across sections and subsections. What is the method to "reset" this paragrapah numbering such that it starts fresh in each section or subsection?

[gmedina]

Hi,

you could use the \counterwithin command provided by the chngcntr package.

[psrivats]

Hi,

you could use the \counterwithin command provided by the chngcntr package.

Thanks for the suggestion. I just used this in my preamble:

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\setcounter{secnumdepth}{6}
\renewcommand\theparagraph{\Alph{paragraph}}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand\paragraph{\@startsection{paragraph}{4}{\z@}%
                                     {-3.25ex\@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
                                     {0.0001pt \@plus .2ex}%
                                     {\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}}
\renewcommand\subparagraph{\@startsection{subparagraph}{5}{\z@}%
                                     {-3.25ex\@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
                                     {0.0001pt \@plus .2ex}%
                                     {\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}}

\counterwithin{paragraph}{subsubsection}
\counterwithin{subparagraph}{paragraph}
\makeatother

Is this the right way to go about this?

[gmedina]

SImply load the package in the preamble of your document:

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\usepackage{chngcntr}

and then use

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\counterwithin{paragraph}{section}

to reset the paragraph counter every time a new section is produced (replace "section" with "subsection" in the code above to reset the paragraph counter every time a new subsection is produced).

[Juanjo]

The code

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\counterwithin{paragraph}{subsubsection}

subordinates the paragraph counter to the subsubsection one, but it also redefines \theparagraph. If you want to preserve your redefinition of \theparagraph, simply use the starred version of \counterwithin, that is, \counterwithin*.

[psrivats]

\counterwithin*{paragraph}{section} did the trick. I removed the other line I had.

Thank you very much.