subsubsections numbering does not restart

Question

I have a list of sections in my document...

\section{animals}
\section{places}

etc..

I need to organize the contents within each section. To do this I decided to use subsubsections instead of subsections in order to save some space...

\section{animals}
\subsubsection{cats}
\subsubsection{dogs}
\section{places}
\subsubsection{muntains}
\subsubsection{lakes}

My problem is that the numbering of the subsubsections does not restart with the new section...how do I fix this?

Thanks

full minimal example please? We cannot compile this as we do not know the preamble or which documentclass you are using. BTW: why subsubsection right after a section? — daleif, Mar 18 '15 at 14:43
See for example http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/161442. Note that the team have very recently fixed this in LaTeX and it will work properly in the upcoming release! — Joseph Wright, Mar 18 '15 at 14:44
Possible duplicate: Continuous v. per-chapter/section numbering of figures, tables, and other document elements — Werner, Mar 18 '15 at 14:44
Auch! my document is super messy...I will try to replicate the behaviour using a new one... — gabboshow, Mar 18 '15 at 14:46
Note that using \subsubsection because of the default styling can be made to work but it is entirely the wrong thing to do, it messes up the logical structure of the document, will mess up the table of contents (without further workarounds) the code that specifies the fonts and spacing for \subsection in article class is exactly one line long: you can change it — David Carlisle, Mar 18 '15 at 14:53

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 18 '15 at 14:59

Rather than distort the document markup, you can just specify that subsections are styled like subsubsections, just copying the relevant line from article.cls

\documentclass{article}

% copy from subsubsection
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\subsection{\@startsection{subsection}{2}{\z@}%
                                     {-3.25ex\@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
                                     {1.5ex \@plus .2ex}%
                                     {\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
  \section{animals}
  \subsection{cats}
  \subsection{dogs}
  \section{places}
  \subsection{muntains}
  \subsection{lakes}
\end{document}

score 3 · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-18T15:01:38.703

3

Is it like this?

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\renewcommand{\thesubsubsection}{\thesection.\arabic{subsubsection}}
\preto{\section}{\setcounter{subsubsection}{0}}
\begin{document}
  \section{animals}
  \subsubsection{cats}
  \subsubsection{dogs}
  \section{places}
  \subsubsection{muntains}
  \subsubsection{lakes}
\end{document}

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With numbers:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{fmtcount}
\renewcommand{\thesubsubsection}{\thesection.\Numberstring{subsubsection}}
\preto{\section}{\setcounter{subsubsection}{0}}
\begin{document}
  \section{animals}
  \subsubsection{cats}
  \subsubsection{dogs}
  \section{places}
  \subsubsection{muntains}
  \subsubsection{lakes}
\end{document}

edited Mar 18 '15 at 15:01

answered Mar 18 '15 at 14:52

Super! It works perfectly – gabboshow Mar 18 '15 at 14:55
@gabboshow add \tableofcontents :-) – David Carlisle Mar 18 '15 at 14:56
Is it possible to change in the subsubsections the numbers in letters? – gabboshow Mar 18 '15 at 14:56
@gabboshow Please see the update. Try \renewcommand{\thesubsubsection}{\Numberstring{section}.\Numberstring{subsubsection}} too if you like. – Mar 18 '15 at 15:01

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 18 '15 at 15:01

You also can do that with the chngcntr package and its counterwithin command. If you want the label be typed as, say, 1 rather than 1.1, use \counterwithin*:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}% http://ctan.org/pkg/amsproc

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}

\usepackage{chngcntr}

\counterwithin{subsubsection}{section}
\begin{document}

\section{animals}
\subsubsection{cats}
\subsubsection{dogs}
\section{places}
\subsubsection{mountains}
\subsubsection{lakes}

\end{document}

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subsubsections numbering does not restart

3 Answers3