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I found myself changing text between sections and parts and between a document with chapters and another only with sections.

This means converting chapters and sections to sections and subsections and vice versa. Is there a way to avoid this? I thought about having relative sectioning, where you would just tell latex to go one level down or one up, and so copy paste would also work.

I couldn't find additional information but some people here talked about similar concepts: her and here.

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Fernando César
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  • isn't http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/266525/how-to-tell-if-last-sectioning-command-was-chapter-section-subsection/266534#266534 what you looking for? – touhami Oct 04 '15 at 17:17
  • I'm not sure @touhami, that code is too advanced for me (as the original question) . Would I be able to jump from subparagraph to section, or use only chapters and below? – Fernando César Oct 04 '15 at 17:33
  • your problem is : you have a document A with parts and section, a document B with section and subsection and you want to merge both, while the parts of document A have the same hierarchical level than sections of document B, right ? – ebosi Oct 04 '15 at 17:42

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The memoir class enables you to easily change between a document style with chapters or one without.

\documentclass[...,
%article,    % uncomment this option for article style
...]{memoir}
....
\begin{document}
\chapter{First}
\section{A section}
...

Without the article option memoir gives a book or report style headings but with the article option a \chapter is set like a \section a \section is set like a \subsection and so on. In essence always use \chapter, \section etc and by simply using the article option it will be typeset like an article, not as a report.

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  • I'm using \documentclass[10pt,a4paper,twoside]{report} for one and \documentclass[10pt,a4paper,twocolumn]{article}. Could I still use memoir? I think this is a good alternative, if an exact answer to my question doesn't exist. – Fernando César Oct 05 '15 at 18:59
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    Use \documentclass[10pt,a4paper,twoside]{memoir} for one and \documentclass[10pt,a4paper,twocolumn,article]{memoir} for the other. – Peter Wilson Oct 06 '15 at 17:57