How to redefine \section temporaly?
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Hi all,
I wrote some articles with context and they contain (of course) sections. Now
I have to include all these articles in a book but each article should become
a section of the book. So I wonder if there is a way to convert the \section
command of the article files into \subsection in the book.
Minimal not working (but supposed to explain my problem) example:
%%% article.tex
\startsection[title=A first point]
... \stopsection
\startsection[title=A second point]
... \stopsection
%%% book.tex
% command to make the \section of the input articles become \subsection
% commands
\startsection[title=My first article]
\input article
\stopsection
%%% end
I know I can change the \section commands of the article.tex into
\ArticleSection and switch with
\definehead[ArticleSection][section]
\definehead[ArticleSection][subsection]
depending of the context, but it would be better (for me) to not modify the
article.tex files.
Any ideas?
Thank in advance.
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Romain Diss
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On 8/31/2013 11:10 PM, Romain Diss wrote:
Hi all,
I wrote some articles with context and they contain (of course) sections. Now I have to include all these articles in a book but each article should become a section of the book. So I wonder if there is a way to convert the \section command of the article files into \subsection in the book.
Minimal not working (but supposed to explain my problem) example:
%%% article.tex \startsection[title=A first point] .... \stopsection \startsection[title=A second point] .... \stopsection
%%% book.tex % command to make the \section of the input articles become \subsection % commands \startsection[title=My first article] \input article \stopsection
%%% end
I know I can change the \section commands of the article.tex into \ArticleSection and switch with \definehead[ArticleSection][section] \definehead[ArticleSection][subsection] depending of the context, but it would be better (for me) to not modify the article.tex files.
Any ideas?
you can use \startwhatever when you do: \definehead[whatever][section] or \definehead[whatever][subsection] or alternatively look into levels-001.tex and levels-002.tex in the test suite to see how to use relative sectioning ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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Hi, Le samedi 31 août 2013 23:55:31 Hans Hagen a écrit :
I wrote some articles with context and they contain (of course) sections. Now I have to include all these articles in a book but each article should become a section of the book. So I wonder if there is a way to convert the \section command of the article files into \subsection in the book.
Any ideas?
you can use \startwhatever when you do:
\definehead[whatever][section]
or
\definehead[whatever][subsection]
or alternatively look into levels-001.tex and levels-002.tex in the test suite to see how to use relative sectioning Thank you. I thought these commands were existing but I didn't remember the name.
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On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 23:10:07 +0200
Romain Diss
Hi all,
I wrote some articles with context and they contain (of course) sections. Now I have to include all these articles in a book but each article should become a section of the book. So I wonder if there is a way to convert the \section command of the article files into \subsection in the book.
Minimal not working (but supposed to explain my problem) example:
%%% article.tex \startsection[title=A first point] ... \stopsection \startsection[title=A second point] ... \stopsection
%%% book.tex % command to make the \section of the input articles become \subsection % commands \startsection[title=My first article] \input article \stopsection
%%% end
I know I can change the \section commands of the article.tex into \ArticleSection and switch with \definehead[ArticleSection][section] \definehead[ArticleSection][subsection] depending of the context, but it would be better (for me) to not modify the article.tex files.
Any ideas?
Thank in advance.
If faced with this problem I would import the tex file into gvim and do a mass change with one statement like: :% s/\\section/\\subsection/ Then I would save the tex file under a different name. If there are already subsections I would convert them to subsubsections first, then convert the sections to subsections. Eqch step is just a singl command in gvim. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
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Hi, Le dimanche 01 septembre 2013 13:02:42 john Culleton a écrit :
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 23:10:07 +0200 Romain Diss
wrote: I wrote some articles with context and they contain (of course) sections. Now I have to include all these articles in a book but each article should become a section of the book. So I wonder if there is a way to convert the \section command of the article files into \subsection in the book. If faced with this problem I would import the tex file into gvim and do
a mass change with one statement like: :% s/\\section/\\subsection/
Then I would save the tex file under a different name.
If there are already subsections I would convert them to subsubsections first, then convert the sections to subsections. Eqch step is just a singl command in gvim. You're right. I also use vim and this is a quick and working solution (and even faster with :bufdo %s/\\section/\\subsection/). However the idea was to keep the section/subsection/subsub.. order in the article individual files and not modify them. In fact I was looking to the most 'contexty' solution.
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