[texworks] Message from TeXworks user

[Herbert Schulz]

On Nov 24, 2011, at 12:56 PM, Inès Penders wrote:

> 
> Hey!
> I'm working with TeXworks for the first time and I enjoy it (although I have still a lot to learn).
> I was wondering: when I type: \section{chapter 1}  I get:   0.1 Chapter 1. How can I change this into: 1 Chapter 1. So why is the system couting from 0.1 because I want my section numbering to start with 1. I couldn't found it in the manual.
> Thanks in advance,
> Ines

Howdy,

What documentclass are you using? We really need a full, minimal examplethat shows this behavior. Try

\documentclass{article}

which doesn't have \chapter defined. I suspect you are using

\documentclass{book}

or the memoir class.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)