Yes.
You could put it in either of those places. If you want this for all time
then you should put it in the preamble and save it as the default layout.
On Friday 02 November 2001 06:39 pm, you wrote:
> 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.
