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refer to "section 3" and there are three section 3s (e.g. 1.3, 2.3, 3.3), how is the reader supposed to know to what you are referring?! So, some general advice someone once gave me: "Think twice before you go mucking about changing the behavior of well-used LaTeX classes, because there is usually a good reason why they work the way they do." :)
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true, and (2) it's at least 20 years old. The "almost" part was that it was
Microsoft that demanded the license fee for EVERY machine shipped, whether or not it had MS-DOS (?) on it or not -- purely the "I-can-get-away-with-this-until-they-force-me-to-quit" model to make it VERY cost-ineffective for
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Hello! I have a \documentclass{report} with several chapters and several sections within each chapter. If I use \ref{sec:mySection}, I get chapterNumber.sectionNumber, but in some cases I just want the section number that the label corresponds to, not the chapter number with the section number. How
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I was wrong to refer to the book as a novel since it is actually a non-fiction work of Tom Clancy & Gen Tony Zinni. In relation to this, I suppose the name of the place is not fictional as the names of other places in the book such as
Mogadishu,Somalia and Aceh,Indonesia can be located on the
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As I remember it, they were trying to claim that purchasers of machines with no operating system must be planning to install a pirated version of
Windows. Which, to be fair, may have been the case some significant fraction of the time, but hardly seems like justification to make Linux users pay
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Partial answer: \renewcommand{\thesection}{\arabic{section}} -- This will change the section numbering from e.g. '3.1' to 1, and return a simple number with \ref. However, there's a problem of ambiguity here. Of course, there's an inherent problem of ambiguity with what you're asking for: If you
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There's a support cost associated with a system building selling a no-windows machine (no-os, Freedos, or Linux). Despite them being really clear that it doesn't come with windows, a nontrivial proportion of people still complain to them that it doesn't come with windows, and yell, and raise
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