\paragraph & \label{}

Question

I am working with about 4000 aphorisms and this is the way I structured my document. I created 4000 sections in one document and named it "aphorisms" i.e.

\section{aphorism - 1} \label{1.1.1} 
\section{aphorism - 1} \label{1.1.2} and so on

I can not change the label name because thats how they are numbered and I don't want loose this reference.

Then I ran the file and it created aphorisms.aux file,

For my document Lessons_1 wherever I needed the aphorism quoted I used \nameref*{} and I included previously generated aux file and later excluded using \includeonly{} to stop the output to PDF. It created a beautiful document I wanted. Below is non working example, but to show the structure of my documents arrangement.

\documentclass[fleqn,12pt,a4paper]{article}
\RequirePackage{my_Custom_package}

\includeonly{Lessons_1}

\begin{document} 
\doublespacing

\include{aphorisms}
\include{Lessons_1}

\end{document}

my question is can it be done like this using paragraphs in place of sections and label names as \label{a1.1.1} etc.

This way I can create explanation of each aphorism by various author, by creating something like \paragraph{ } \label{} for each author.

Then I can easily create as shown below, This would become template to many other projects I am planning to undertake in future.

\nameref*{1.1.1} % aphorism
\nameref*{a1.1.1} % Explanation of Author A
\nameref*{b1.1.1} % Explanation of Author B

This project is to revive some ancient texts. Your help is greatly appreciated.

I guess that you have to increase the value of \secnumdepth to turn on numbering for paragraphs. — Sigur, Aug 10 '13 at 16:43
On preamble \setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}. Test other values if necessary. — Sigur, Aug 10 '13 at 16:46
For paragraphs you need \setcounter{secnumdepth}{4}, cf. http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/126764/15925 — Andrew Swann, Aug 10 '13 at 18:31
@AndrewSwann & Sigur thanks for your help. It worked, also by accident I was putting extra space in \Label{} that caused ?? in the output. I put both and now its working again — Raama, Aug 10 '13 at 19:06

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 11 '13 at 08:39

To summarise the comments: to make paragraph labels visible one should write

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{4}

in the preamble.

Sample output

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{nameref}

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{4}

\begin{document}

\section{Aphorisms}

\paragraph{Aphorism - 1}\label{1.1.1} 
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience deceptive,
judgment difficult.

\section{Explanations}

\nameref*{1.1.1} is take from the Wikipedia page on aphorisms and is
the first sentence of Hippocrates' \emph{Aphorisms}.

\end{document}

\paragraph & \label{}

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