Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!tank!mimsy!chris From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: LaTeX Section question. Message-ID: <19316@mimsy.UUCP> Date: 29 Aug 89 23:00:19 GMT References: Distribution: usa Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 30 In article brister@td2cad.intel.com (James Brister) writes: >... I'd like sections to be indented relative to their depth. e.g. > > 1.0 Foo > 1.1 Foo subsection > 1.1.1 Foo subsubsection > 1.2 Another Foo subsection > 2.0 Bar > 2.1 Bar subsection > 2.2 Bar subection number 2 I hope that you would like this because a layout designer told you to do it this way (not that I would necessarily believe the layout designer: I think this looks horrid, and would look only marginally less so if the `1.1' were under the `F' in `Foo', etc.). Note also that LaTeX normally numbers sections as `1', not `1.0', etc. >Do I need to explicitly set the \oddsidemargin and \evensidemargin each >time? No. In fact, you must not set these. The quantity that needs to be adjusted is called `\leftskip'. The section depth goes in the `secnumdepth' counter. For clues as to how to work with the internals of the sectioning commands, look in latex.tex for the definition of `\@startsection' and in the style files that you are now using for the definitions of \section, \subsection, etc. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris