Dear Claus,
thanks for your reply.
However, in the field of psychology (at least), the Experiment is an
important 'level' (with Methods, Results & Discussion as sublevels),
and it is sometimes most appropriate to refer to the entire experiment
as a whole, rather than just the result.
So, using your advice, I know define a theorem in the preamble:
\newtheorem{expt}{E}
\setcounter{expt}{1}
And for those sections that are experiments, I use the following (the
addcounters might not be necessary?):
\section[Experiment \arabic{expt}: Nice test of my model.]{Experiment
\arabic{expt}}
\addtocounter{expt}{-1}
\begin{expt}
Nice test of my model.
\label{exx1}
\end{expt}
\addtocounter{expt}{1}
This gives appropriate chapter titles, and what looks like a
title-line; and looks good in the toc as well.. Not the most elegant,
but it certainly works appropriately. Any suggestions would be most
welcome :)
Thanks!
Mohinish
On 18 Nov 2004, at 4:34 PM, Claus Gerhardt wrote:
I would advice against defining a new section command. A references
should enable the reader to find the reference in the text fairly
easily. The best reference is of course a page number, which can also
be achieved by using something like like fullref. I usually do this
in a book, when the reference points to a different section. In a
paper refering to the section and theorem/experiment label alone is
more appropriate.
Thus I would recommend to use the standard section command. Your
experiments lead certainly to a main observations or results. This
result should be stated like a theorem
\begin{thm}
\end{thm}
In addition you have to define in the preamble
\newtheorem{thm}[subsection]{Experiment}
Then this will be printed as
Experiment 3.1. The breath taking result can best be described ....
if the experiment is the first experiment in section 3. This would be
my recommendation.
You could also define
\newtheorem{thm}{Experiment}
then the experiments would be labeled consecutivley starting with 1
without any reference to a section number. If there would be a
bijective relation between experiments and sections, this would be
identical, but I doubt it, because of the introduction, and you also
said that some experiments would be stated not as sections. Thus, to
be consistent you should use the first approach.
Claus
On 18.11.2004, at 15:06, Mohinish Shukla wrote:
I have a problem that seems 'generic'..(meaning I suppose a similar
problem could arise in various contexts)
- I have a series of Experiments in the thesis; I would like to
number these Experiment 1, Experiment 2 and so on. They are all
sections, but not every section is an Experiment..also, they are
spread out across different chapters.
So, I tried
\newcounter{expt}
\setcounter{expt}{1}
and whenever I have an Experiment (typically a \section), I used
\section{Experiment \arabic{expt}: Experiment name}
\addtocounter{expt}{1}
Works great, except that now I cannot refer back to this particular
experiment. I tried:
\section{Experiment \arabic{expt}: Experiment name\label{expt1}}
but a \ref{expt1} returns, naturally, the section number, and not the
experiment number...
so I cannot say ".. in Experiment \ref{expt1}... "
Any ideas/suggestions? I would be most grateful!
Currently I'm naming the experiments by their section number, as:
\section{Experiment \arabic{chapter}.\arabic{section}: Experiment
name}
which is not elegant, but is at least consistent..
Thanks for any suggestions!!!
Mohinish
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