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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label subsubsub</title>
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<h3>How to create a <code>\</code><code>subsubsubsection</code></h3>
<p/>LaTeX&rsquo;s set of &ldquo;sections&rdquo; stops at the level of
<code>\</code><code>subsubsection</code>.  This reflects a design decision by Lamport &mdash;
for, after all, who can reasonably want a section with such huge
strings of numbers in front of it?
<p/>In fact, LaTeX standard classes <em>do</em> define &ldquo;sectioning&rdquo;
levels lower than <code>\</code><code>subsubsection</code>, but they don&rsquo;t format them like
sections (they&rsquo;re not numbered, and the text is run-in after the
heading).  These deeply inferior section commands are <code>\</code><code>paragraph</code>
and <code>\</code><code>subparagraph</code>; you can (if you <em>must</em>) arrange that these
two commands produce numbered headings, so that you can use them as
<code>\</code><code>subsubsubsection</code>s and lower.
<p/>The <i>titlesec</i> allows you to adjust the definitions of the
sectioning macros, and it may be used to
transform a <code>\</code><code>paragraph</code>&rsquo;s typesetting so that it looks like that
of a <code>\</code><code>section</code>.
<p/>If you want to program the change yourself, you&rsquo;ll find that the
commands (<code>\</code><code>section</code> all the way down to <code>\</code><code>subparagraph</code>) are
defined in terms of the internal <code>\</code><code>@startsection</code> command, which
takes 6 arguments.  Before attempting this sort of work, you are well
advised to read the LaTeX sources (<i>ltsect.dtx</i> in the
LaTeX distribution) and the source of the standard packages
(<i>classes.dtx</i>).  The <a href="FAQ-books.html">LaTeX Companion</a>
discusses use of <code>\</code><code>@startsection</code> for this sort of thing.
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<dt><tt><i>LaTeX source</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/base.zip">macros/latex/base</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/base.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/base/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>titlesec.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/titlesec.zip">macros/latex/contrib/titlesec</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/titlesec.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/titlesec/">browse</a>)
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