[OS X TeX] Redefining subsection counter

Michael Kubovy kubovy at virginia.edu
Tue Mar 20 15:27:41 CET 2007


Thank you, that solved the problem. It *is* an unfortunately  
unintuitive choice.

On Mar 20, 2007, at 10:06 AM, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:

> On Mar 20, 2007, at 9:41 AM, Michael Kubovy wrote:
>
>> Dear Texers,
>>
>> This is the premble:
>> *****************************
>> \documentclass[]{article}
>>
>> \usepackage{fancyhdr}
>> \def\thesubsection{\Alpha{subsection}}
>>
>> \begin{document}
>> *****************************
>>
>> It causes the following failure:
>> *****************************
>> ! Undefined control sequence.
>> \thesubsection ->\Alpha
>>                         {subsection}
>> *****************************
>> Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>
> 1) Your text compiles just fine for me.
> 2) The error that you get seems to point to the control sequence  
> \Alpha not being defined. It should be \Alph instead ;). (don't  
> know why, since it is \Roman, so the preference is for kind of full  
> words. )


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