Re: [Docutils-users] sectioning depth for LaTeX

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On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Andrey V Stolyarov wrote:

>
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, G. Milde wrote:
>
>> On 12.04.07, Andrey V Stolyarov wrote:
>>
>>> I've got another (unexpected) problem.  The rst2latex.py program
>>> handles deep sectioning in a way I think is weird.  In case the
>>> sectioning depth of the document is more that 3 for the article
>>> class, or 4 for the report class, all the headers deeper than
>>> that (the subsubsection level in either case) just silently made
>>> subsubsections.  I even didn't notice this for a long period.
>>
>> The problem is that rst syntax support 33 section levels but the output
>> format typically supports less than that. I remember that this
>> restriction is mentioned somewhere in the documentation (however, not in
>> http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#sections)
>
> Well this sounds reasonable, but LaTeX provides, depending on the
> document class, 5 to 6 levels (not counting the "Part" level
> which is optional and not always applicable): there are always
> "section", "subsection", "subsubsection", "paragraph" and
> "subparagraph", and in case of "book" or "report" classes there's
> also "chapter".  It seems that rst2latex.py just doesn't know
> that there are these "paragraph" and "subparagraph".

subparagraph just does not sound reasonable for a section heading,
but maybe i got something wrong here. (33 levels ?!)

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