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I think that should work. I'm just looking in amsbook.cls, finding the chapter definition (\newcommand\chapter) and tracing through it until I find some offending "\centering" commands I can remove. Richard Mike Rechard wrote: > Thank you much for your help, redefining the 'section' > class worked fine however as you mentioned I need one > more step to make all things work. > Would it be possible to redefine the 'Chapter's as > well? the same way you did for section part. > The thing is that, I am in the middle of writing my > thesis and just realized that the university rule is > to have all the heading titles (including chapters) be > left-aligned and they seem to be very picky about > this, so now I can say that I am in trouble with this > and need help (especially I need to use AMS due to > math contests). > I think part of my problem is that I don't know Latex > otherwise I guess I could modify the source after all > but now I don't know what to do. > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > sincerlely, > > Mike Rechard > MKS reSearcher > > --- Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> >>> Richard> As I said, though, I doubt that's really >>> >> the formatting you >> >>> Richard> want. As you note, the amsbook class >>> >> centers the headings. >> >>> Richard> That's AMS style. >>> >>> Richard, what we should do about that is disable >>> >> the alignments that >> >>> are not authorized in the paragraph dialog. This >>> >> information is >> >>> available in the class, we only have to write the >>> >> code to actually >> >>> disable the lists entries. See: >>> http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1550 >>> JMarc >>> >>> >> Right. If you can point me at the right place to >> look in the code, I'll >> have a peek. >> >> Richard >> >> >> -- >> >> > ================================================================== > >> Richard G Heck, Jr >> Professor of Philosophy >> Brown University >> http://frege.brown.edu/heck/ >> >> > ================================================================== > >> Get my public key from >> http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de >> Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC >> Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and >> GnuPG at: >> http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto >> >> >> > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > The fish are biting. > Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. > http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php > -- ================================================================== Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://frege.brown.edu/heck/ ================================================================== Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto