1 An example section
I've read that \paragraph
is a sectioning command one level lower than \subsubsection
. However, it seems to work a little differently. For one thing, it is unnumbered (unless modified).
An example paragraph Furthermore, it seems to "stick" to the text of the paragraph of text following it, i.e. it doesn't appear on a line of its own, like other sectioning commands do. Instead, its title just appears as the first few words of the paragraph in question.
This leads me to wonder: is \paragraph
intended to be used simply as an unnumbered version of the nonexistent \subsubsubsection
, i.e. so that it might be used to delimit multi-paragraph blocks of text, or is its significance limited only to the paragraph in which it is included (as suggested by the fact that it "sticks" to it)?
This question is formatted as an example of the first kind of usage of \paragraph
mentioned above (as an unnumbered \subsubsubsection
), i.e. the paragraph beginning with "This leads me to wonder" above, as well as this one, is here meant to be included under the paragraph "An example paragraph". Is this the correct usage?
2 A second example section
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\paragraph
in the latex scheme of things isnot
equivalent to the html<p> ... </p>
. it's just the terminology that the creator of latex decided to use instead of\subsubsubsection
. (i guess he thought that three levels of "section"s was sufficient. he's not a lawyer.) @ChristianHupfer has got it right. and anyhow, any level of sectioning can have the numbering either included or omitted. there's plenty of documentation around on how to do it. – barbara beeton Jul 14 '14 at 20:53\paragraph*
, so I grew accustomed to see them unnumbered. – user31729 Jul 14 '14 at 20:59\paragraph
should be unnumbered. I'm just concerned that the fact that it merges with the paragraph of text that it precedes, is making some kind of hint at how it should be used, that I'm missing. – andreasdr Jul 15 '14 at 0:30