[OS X TeX] aligning section titles of different levels below each other

[Alan Munn]

At 11:46 AM +0100 2/14/07, Sergei Mariev wrote:

>And this code, i.e. \makebox instead of \fbox does not work for me at all:
>
>\makeatletter
>\renewcommand{\@seccntformat}[1]{\makebox[1cm][l]{\csname 
>the#1\endcsname}\hspace{0.5em}}
>\makeatother
>
>Could someone suggest a solution how to make the section titles 
>begin exactly at the same distance from the margin no matter how 
>much space the section number takes?

Commands with optional arguments are fragile and need a \protect 
command.  So the following will work:

\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@seccntformat}[1]{\protect\makebox[1cm][l]{\csname 
the#1\endcsname}\hspace{0.5em}}
\makeatother

Alan

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