Page Layout ⇒ startsection problems

[eimund]

Hey,

I'm trying to create my own section and made the following code to make a subsubsubsection

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\makeatletter
\newcounter {subsubsubsection}[subsubsection]
\renewcommand\thesubsubsubsection{\thesubsubsection .\@arabic\c@subsubsubsection}
\newcommand{\subsubsubsection}{\@startsection{subsubsubsection}{6}{\z@}{-3.25ex\@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}{1.5ex \@plus .2ex}{\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}}
\newcommand*\l@subsubsubsection{\@dottedtocline{6}{7.0em}{4.1em}}
\makeatother

The problem I have is that when I write

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\subsubsubsection{Hey}

then following is displayed

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3.1.1.1 Hey
Hey

It repeates the text. However, when I use

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\subsubsubsection*{Hey}

the text is written only once. Do anyone have a clue to what the problem is?

I know I can use \paragraph, but I realy want to know whats the problem and how to solve it!

Regards
Eimund

[aphiny01]

I have experienced the same behavior with the following code:

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\documentclass{article}

\newcounter{chapter}
\makeatletter
\newcommand\chapter{\@startsection{chapter}{3}{\z@}%
                                     {3.25ex\@plus 1ex \@minus .2ex}%
                                     {1.5ex \@plus .2ex}%
                                     {\normalfont\large\bfseries}}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\chapter{Test1}
\chapter*{Test2}

\end{document}

Can anyone point out what is missing?
Thanks.

[aphiny01]

I tried some additional scenarios as follows

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\documentclass{article}

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{-2}

\makeatletter
\newcommand\chapter{\@startsection{chapter}{3}{\z@}%
                                     {3.25ex\@plus 1ex \@minus .2ex}%
                                     {1.5ex \@plus .2ex}%
                                     {\normalfont\large\bfseries}}

\renewcommand\section{\@startsection{section}{3}{\z@}%
                                     {3.25ex\@plus 1ex \@minus .2ex}%
                                     {1.5ex \@plus .2ex}%
                                     {\normalfont\large\bfseries}}
\makeatother

\newcommand{\newcmd}{\large\bf}

\begin{document}

\chapter{This repeats.}
\chapter*{With Asterick, It Doesn't Repeat.}
\section{Redefining existing command does not repeat.}
\newcmd{Defining new command does not repeat.}

\end{document}

Any thoughts or help much appreciated. Thanks.

[aphiny01]

Resolved. Picked up some tidbits from an online latex guide.

Part and chapter have to defined using secdef. The following code illustrates a solution.

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\documentclass{article}

\makeatletter
\newcommand\chapter{
                      \secdef\@chapter\@schapter
                   }
\def\@chapter[#1]#2{
                      \normalsize \bf #2
                    }
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\chapter{This does not repeat anymore.}
\end{document}

Thanks to all.

[jaykemper]

Resolved. Picked up some tidbits from an online latex guide.

Part and chapter have to defined using secdef. The following code illustrates a solution.

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\documentclass{article}

\makeatletter
\newcommand\chapter{
                      \secdef\@chapter\@schapter
                   }
\def\@chapter[#1]#2{
                      \normalsize \bf #2
                    }
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\chapter{This does not repeat anymore.}
\end{document}

Thanks to all.

I don't think it can be classified as "resolved". It's a good way to show optional arguments (which I appreciate), but there is a lot missing from the "solution".

\refstepcounter{subsubsubsection} to step the counter?
\addtocontents{toc}{#1} to add the table of contents?
hanging numbering?
\newcommand\thesubsubsubsection{\thesubsubsection.\@arabic\c@subsubsubsection} to define the referencing?

It's just odd that you can take the same definition for the subsection, change "subsection" to "subsubsubsection" and all of a sudden it repeats.

You can use titleclass out of the titlesec package, but I've noticed that it jacks up the table of contents and I don't know how to fix it...got another thread going on that one.

So bottom line, I have no answers, just gripes.

[jaykemper]

Hey,

I'm trying to create my own section and made the following code to make a subsubsubsection

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\makeatletter
\newcounter {subsubsubsection}[subsubsection]
\renewcommand\thesubsubsubsection{\thesubsubsection .\@arabic\c@subsubsubsection}
\newcommand{\subsubsubsection}{\@startsection{subsubsubsection}{6}{\z@}{-3.25ex\@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}{1.5ex \@plus .2ex}{\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}}
\newcommand*\l@subsubsubsection{\@dottedtocline{6}{7.0em}{4.1em}}
\makeatother

The problem I have is that when I write

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\subsubsubsection{Hey}

then following is displayed

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3.1.1.1 Hey
Hey

It repeates the text. However, when I use

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\subsubsubsection*{Hey}

the text is written only once. Do anyone have a clue to what the problem is?

I know I can use \paragraph, but I realy want to know whats the problem and how to solve it!

Regards
Eimund

I think I may have the answer.

There was ONE command missing!

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\let\subsubsubsection\@gobble

And if you want to manipulate the format with the titlesec package

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\usepackage{titlesec}
...
\titleclass{\subsubsubparagraph}[\subparagraph]

[rikiheck]

I ran into this problem as well when trying to define a special sort of section for us in postscripts to chapters. The malfunctioning code was:

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\newcounter{postsubsection}[postsection]
\renewcommand\thepostsubsection{\thepostsection.\arabic{postsubsection}}
\providecommand\postsubsection{\@startsection{postsubsection}{2}{\z@}%
    {-3.25ex\@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
    {1.5ex \@plus .2ex}%\@startsection
    {\normalfont\large\raggedright}}

Note that this just mimics the definition of \section in book.cls. But then I got the repeating title.

Looking at latex.ltx finally revealed that the problem was that no \postsectionmark command had been defined. So when we hit:

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    \csname #1mark\endcsname{#7}

in \@sect, what happens is that #7 (the optional argument, automatically generated by \@dblarg) gets printed by itself. So the solution was:

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\newcommand*\postsectionmark{\sectionmark}

To get these to print properly in the TOC, I also had to do:

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\newcommand*\l@postsection{\l@section}

But with those additions, it works perfectly.