[OS X TeX] Redefining subsection counter

[Charilaos Skiadas]

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. )


Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College





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