On 04/10/2017 01:22, Richard Heck wrote:
I just got the following question:
Why not reverse the process; Rather than modifying a dozen styles?
What would it take to create something like a "Subsection-v2" which
would just use as counter the "thm" counter?
This can be done, but it would mean creating your own version of
theorems-ams. It's easy to do this by copying the old files to new names
(in $USERDIR/layouts/) and then modifying them. I'll be happy to explain
the process a bit more if you want to do that.
Thank you for your generous offer. After a good night's sleep, I will
probably do as you suggest and look at theorems-ams.
The reason you have to modify so many styles is that all the
declarations happen in Theorem, and then the other styles copy them. But
the copying happens when the file is originally read: Later
modifications to Theorem do not affect, say, Lemma. And each individual
counter (e.g., "Lemma \thesubsection") has to be declared independently,
anyway. Presumably, there would be a way to fix that, but no one has
ever really needed to do it, so it doesn't get done.
There's nothing like understanding what's really going on!
Regards
Ramez
