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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label seccntfmt</title>
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<h3>Adjusting the presentation of section numbers</h3>
<p/>The general issues of adjusting the appearance of section headings are
pretty complex, and are covered in 
the question on
<a href="FAQ-secthead.html">the style of section headings</a>.
<p/>However, people regularly want merely to change the way the section
number appears in the heading, and some such people don&rsquo;t mind writing
out a few macros.  This answer is for <em>them</em>.
<p/>The section number is typeset using the

  <a href="FAQ-atsigns.html">LaTeX internal</a>
<code>\</code><code>@seccntformat</code> command, which is given the &ldquo;name&rdquo; (section,
subsection, &hellip;) of the heading, as argument.  Ordinarily,
<code>\</code><code>@seccntformat</code> 
merely outputs the section number, and then a <code>\</code><code>quad</code> of space.
Suppose you want to put a stop after every section (subsection,
subsubsection, &hellip;) number, a trivial change may be implemented by
simple modification of the command:
<blockquote>
<pre>
\renewcommand*{\@seccntformat}[1]{%
  \csname the#1\endcsname.\quad
}
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
<p/>Many people (for some reason) want a stop after a section number, but
not after a subsection number, or any of the others.
To do this, one must make <code>\</code><code>@seccntformat</code> switch according to its
argument.  The following technique for doing the job is slightly
wasteful, but is efficient enough for a relatively rare operation:
<blockquote>
<pre>
\renewcommand*{\@seccntformat}[1]{%
  \expandafter\ifx\csname @seccntformat@#1\endcsname\relax
    \expandafter\@@seccntformat
  \else
    \expandafter
      \csname @seccntformat@#1\expandafter\endcsname
  \fi
    {#1}%
}
</pre>
</blockquote><p>

which looks to see if a second-level command has been defined, and
uses it if so; otherwise it uses the original.  The second-level
command to define stops after section numbers (only) has the same
definition as the original &ldquo;all levels alike&rdquo; version:
<blockquote>
<pre>
\newcommand*{\@seccntformat@section}[1]{%
  \csname the#1\endcsname.\quad
}
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
Note that all the command definitions of this answer are dealing in
<a href="FAQ-atsigns.html">LaTeX internal commands</a>, so the above
code should be in a package file, for preference.
<p/>The <i>Koma-script</i> classes have different commands for specifying
changes to section number presentation: <code>\</code><code>partformat</code>,
<code>\</code><code>chapterformat</code> and <code>\</code><code>othersectionlevelsformat</code>, but otherwise
their facilities are similar to those of &ldquo;raw&rdquo; LaTeX.
<dl>
<dt><tt><i>KOMA script bundle</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script.zip">macros/latex/contrib/koma-script</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script/">browse the directory</a>)
</dl>
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=seccntfmt">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=seccntfmt</a>
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