Latex Definition Numbering Chapter

This post is a collection of alternative chapter styles available some as packages others simply in form of latex code.

Latex definition numbering chapter. Documentclass report begin document tableofcontents chapter editing compile section first compile how to compile basic hello world into a pdf. On the other hand article does not reset these counters when a new section is started. This means that you can insert a new section or chapter or swap sections around or even change a section to a subsection etc without having to worry about updating all the section numbers the style of section headings if you are using a class file that contains chapters as well as sections the section number. The default chapter style is often used in academic books and theses.

Here is an example. Here s a list of the standard counters. In the standard document classes report and book figure and table counters are reset after every chapter. Latex numbering one advantage of latex over the other tex flavors is that it provides an automatic numbering of the sections theorems equations etc together with an easy way to refer to these numbers.

Note that you don t specify the section number as latex does this automatically. There are however a great number of alternative styles available some of which being very fancy or playful. The value of a counter can be changed with a command of the type setcounter equation 0. Counters are what latex uses to keep the right number attached to equations pages theorems etc.

Equation figure footnote page table chapter section subsection subsubsection enumi enumii enumiii enumiv for every counter name. December 2014 by tom 16 comments. Subsection output formats different output formats dvi pdf the output of this command latex hello tex will be a dvi file hello dvi. Continuous figure table numbering in latex.

Notice that the remark is now in italics and the text in the environment uses normal roman typeface the definition on the other hand also uses roman typeface for the text within but the word definition is printed in boldface font.