Pardon my ignorance, but I'm a newbie and I don't know where I would add the
command:
\renewcommand{\thesection}{\arabic{section}}
would this be in the report itself or in the latex preamble?
Rodney
On Friday 02 November 2001 01:57 pm, Renaud MICHEL wrote:
> Le Vendredi 2 Novembre 2001 19:00, vous avez �crit :
> > I am writing a paper using the report document class. When I add a
> > section, the numbering starts at 0.1, how do I get it to start at 1?
>
> It is because the report class has chapters, you should use chapter instead
> of section, if you don't want chapters you should use the article class.
> If you want to use the report class but don't want the chapter you can
> redefine the command \thesection (the command responsible of the 0.1) with
> \renewcommand{\thesection}{\arabic{section}}
> this should give you a 1.
