I'm fairly new to LaTeX and I want to know how to change the way sections are numbered by default. I use LyX, and there it is relatively simple to change the way an enumeration is numbered, i.e.
1 foo
a bar
i baz
But I want to know if there is a way to do this by default for sections and subsections.
You change section numbering by redefining the commands used to generate each section number. For example, the default article class uses something like
with similar commands like \thesubsubsection and so on -- of course, there's also \thechapter (in the book and report class) and \thepart. Commands to typeset numbers include:
If you have any more expertise or examples to add to this answer, I think this would be a good question to serve as a "canonical" question with a widely applicable and extensive answer. I suppose widening the scope of the question a bit would be acceptable as well, even though it's pretty open already. I might come back to this question when I have some time and look into it. The 2.5k views are promising for sure. –
doncherrySep 30 '12 at 0:53
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3177/how-to-change-the-numbering-of-part-chapter-section-to-alphabetical-r/3183#3183How to change the numbering of \part, \chapter, \section, … to al