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| Chapters and Sections                                   9/11/2010 |
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Normal sections and subsections can be created by the right command

\chapter{NAME}
\section{NAME}
\subsection{NAME}
..

The standard style may not work perfectly, so you can redefine them.

For instance, if you don't want the section headings to be in a x.y
style ( 0.1 The first section ) and would rather have them just use
the section number ( 1 The first section ) use the following

\def\thesection{\arabic{section}}

Alternately you can add text and add standard stuff before the actual
section name.

\def\thesubsection{My fancy name for a subsection \#\arabic{subsection}:}