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Note: This question is related to an issue shown in another question: Does subsections have limit in the IEEEtran document class?.

MWE

\documentclass[journal,twoside]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{alphalph}
\usepackage{silence}

\def\thesubsectiondis{\AlphAlph{\value{subsection}}.}

\begin{document}
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\subsection{}
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\end{document}

Explanation & Question

I noticed that subsections in IEEEtran have a limit, that could be overcome using the package alphalph, however, this package seems to have a conflict with silence package. If the conflict is not with the package itself it could be with the commands \def\thesubsectiondis{\AlphAlph{\value{subsection}}.}.

  • How can this be solved? Please, bare in mind that the use of both packages, and the solution in the previous question are vital.
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  • The conflict seems to be between silence and the IEEEtran class. – Gonzalo Medina Sep 21 '15 at 01:24
  • @GonzaloMedina Really?, I am often using silence package with IEEEtran, have never come across with this kind of error. Can that conflict be fixed? – Hans Sep 21 '15 at 01:29
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    Hmmm. Now that I did some additional tests, it seems that you're right and is the alphalph and silence which conflict. – Gonzalo Medina Sep 21 '15 at 01:39

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The problem is that \thesubsection also needs a redefinition (I also added this to the other answer)

\renewcommand\thesubsection{\mbox{\thesection-\AlphAlph{\value{subsection}}}}

The complete code:

\documentclass[journal,twoside]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{silence}
\usepackage{alphalph}

\renewcommand\thesubsectiondis{\AlphAlph{\value{subsection}}.}
\renewcommand\thesubsection{\mbox{\thesection-\AlphAlph{\value{subsection}}}} 

\begin{document}
\section{}
\subsection{}
\subsection{}
\subsection{}
\subsection{}
\subsection{}
\subsection{}
\subsection{}
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\end{document}
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  • Thanks again man. Where should I go into learn all of this programming you are doing? – Hans Sep 21 '15 at 01:50
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    @Hans You're welocme. In this question and its answers there's valuable advise: http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/12668/3954. In this particular case, all I did was to the code of IEEEtran.cls and look for the necessary commands needing a redefinition. – Gonzalo Medina Sep 21 '15 at 02:00