📅 2012-Nov-30 ⬩ ✍️ Ashwin Nanjappa ⬩ 🏷️ chapter, counter, latex, numbering, section ⬩ 📚 Archive
Problem
LaTeX automatically numbers the chapters and sections that appear in a document. But sometimes it might be necessary to override the default numbering and assign a specific chapter or section number.
Solution
LaTeX maintains internal counters named as chapter
and section
that hold the chapter and section number. The value in the chapter counter is zero at the beginning of the document. The value in the section counter is zero at the beginning of every chapter. Every \chapter
or \section
command increments this counter.
So, a specific chapter or section number can be specified by manipulating the value inside this counter. The value in these counters can be set by using the \setcounter
command.
For example, to have a chapter numbered 99 come right after chapter 1:
\chapter{First chapter}
%...
\setcounter{chapter}{98}
\chapter{Ninety-ninth chapter already}
The same technique can be used with section and subsection numbering to set specific numbers.
Tried with: MikTeX 2.9