[texhax] section counter

[Victor Ivrii]

On 2/6/06, Patric Glöde <Patric.Gloede at t-online.de> wrote:
>  Thank you very much for your help ... is works quite well ... just that I
> did mean 'appendix' literal, but I actually want an appendix-like section
> which is called "Grundlagen" in german (="basics"). So I would like the
> sections to be labeled G,G.1,G.2 etc. rather than A,A.1,A.2 etc. So my
> question now is how can I force LaTeX to label the "appendix sections" by a
> 'G'.


\appendix
\setcounter{section}{6}     % Is G the seventh letter in the alphabet?
\section{Basics}              % Results in  G. Basics

\setcounter{section}{25}
\section{Blah}                  % Results in Z.Blah

Another advice given to you was more universal

  \renewcommand{\thechapter}{\Roman{chapter}}

but it should be adjusted:

\renewcommand{\thesection}{\Alph{section}}

(since in your documentclass section is the highest partition)
followed by the same

\setcounter{section}{6}
\section{}

where you can use also \alph \roman \Roman

>
>  BR
>
>  P.Glöde
>
>  Victor Ivrii wrote:
>  On 2/6/06, Patric Glöde <Patric.Gloede at t-online.de> wrote:
>
>
>  Dear texhax,
>
> is there a LaTeX command which changes the counter of a section and its
> subsections from the default numeric counter into an alphabetic
> character. E.g. the last section of a paper may serve as appendix, which
> should not be numbered by 8, 8.1,8.2,8.3 etc. but rather by A,
> A.1,A.2,A.3 etc.
>
>  \appendix
>
> After this counter [section] restarts and becomes alphabetic
>
> (so you need to type \section{my first appendix}
>
> ........
> \section{another appendix}
> -------
> ---
> \section{yet another appendix}
>
>
>
>
>  Many thanks for help.
>
> P. Glöde
>
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