Deeper levels of (sub)sections

Question

I use pandoc to create latex and PDF from Markdown. Markdown, being designed for HTML, allows 6 levels of headers H1...H6. But when converting to PDF, via tex, I get only three levels: 1 (\section), 1.1 (\subsection) and 1.1.1 (\subsubsection).

The tex source has no command around the deeper level headers. 1.1.1.1 simply does not exist and is treated as plain text.

Where should I look, in order to get latex to support deeper levels of headers/sections? Is that possible at all? Or should I consider restructuring the document so as never to go below 1.1.1, header level three, \subsubsection?

Answer 1

\documentclass{report}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{5}
\begin{document}
\part{Part}
\chapter{Chapter}
\section{Section}
\subsection{Subsection}
\subsubsection{Subsubsection}
\paragraph{Paragraph}
\subparagraph{Subparagraph}
\end{document}

You can change the formatting of these using the titlesec package.

Answer 2

There are two levels below \subsubsection which are \paragraph and \subparagraph. Whether some sectioning command is numbered or appears in the table of contents is selected by the secnumdepth and tocdepth counters, respectively.