Section numbering conflicts in latex

Question

I am using the following code in latex (llncs template) to write a paper. I am using xpretocmd to avoid conflicts between arabtex and algorithmic but the problem is that once I solved this conflict by adding xpretocmd I lost section numbering.

\documentclass[envcountsect]{llncs}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{algorithm}
\usepackage{algorithmic}
\usepackage{xpatch}

\xpretocmd{\algorithmic}{\let\AND\relax\let\OR\relax\let\NOT\relax}{}{}
\usepackage{arabtex}
\usepackage{utf8}
\setcode{utf8}
\renewcommand{\thesection}{\arabic{section}}
\begin{document}
...

Alexander Gelbukh · Answer 1 · 2015-03-13T10:18:21.710

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This answer is based on the belkebir's answer but simpler:

Create an empty file named asect.sty in the folder where your paper is.

This file will be loaded instead of the one that apatch.sty expects. This is the same as commenting out the line in apactch.sty but does not require altering system files.

edited Mar 13 '15 at 10:18

answered Mar 13 '15 at 05:54

Alexander Gelbukh

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It worked for me in overleaf, thaaaanks. – Minions Jun 19 '19 at 13:14

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 29 '15 at 02:15

Hosam Hammady explains the solution at http://blog.hammady.net/2008/03/latex-problem-integrating-arabtex-with.html:

ArabTeX redefines the section formatting command \section using \renewcommand in asect.sty. So I disabled the inclusion of such file in apatch.sty by commenting the following:
%\UsePackage {asect} % load LaTeX extensions for Arabic sections.
For a normal LaTeX installation, all files exist in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/.

Section numbering conflicts in latex

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