Section headings of various sizes are produced (in the
article document style) using the commands
\section
,\subsection
and
\subsubsection
commands. LaTeX will number the sections and subsections
automatically. The title of the section should be surrounded
by braces and placed immediately after the relevant
command. Thus if we type
then the title of the section and that of the subsection will be printed in a large boldface font, and will be numbered accordingly.\section{Section Headings} We explain in this section how to obtain headings for the various sections and subsections of our document. \subsection{Headings in the `article' Document Style} In the `article' style, the document may be divided up into sections, subsections and subsubsections, and each can be given a title, printed in a boldface font, simply by issuing the appropriate command.
Other document styles (such as the book and
letter styles) have other `sectioning'
commands available (for example, the book
style has a \chapter
command for beginning
a new chapter).
Sometimes one wishes to suppress the automatic numbering provided by LaTeX. This can be done by placing an asterisk before the title of the section or subsection. Thus, for example, the section numbers in the above example could be suppressed by typing
\section*{Section Headings} We explain in this section how to obtain headings for the various sections and subsections of our document. \subsection*{Headings in the `article' Document Style} In the `article' style, the document may be divided up into sections, subsections and subsubsections, and each can be given a title, printed in a boldface font, simply by issuing the appropriate command.