I found the solution.. Whew. Here it is
\makeatletter
\def\@sect#1#2#3#4#5#6[#7]#8{\ifnum #2>\c@secnumdepth
\def\@svsec{}\else
\refstepcounter{#1}\edef\@svsec{\csname the#1\endcsname .\hskip 1em }\fi
\@tempskipa #5\relax
\ifdim \@tempskipa>\z@
\begingroup #6\relax
\@hangfrom{\hskip #3\relax\@svsec}{\interlinepenalty \@M #8\par}
\endgroup
\csname #1mark\endcsname{#7}\addcontentsline
{toc}{#1}{\ifnum #2>\c@secnumdepth \else
\protect\numberline{\csname the#1\endcsname}\fi
#7}\else
\def\@svsechd{#6\hskip #3\@svsec #8\csname #1mark\endcsname
{#7}\addcontentsline
{toc}{#1}{\ifnum #2>\c@secnumdepth \else
\protect\numberline{\csname the#1\endcsname}\fi
#7}}\fi
\@xsect{#5}}
\makeatother
On Tuesday 27 August 2002 15:17, Remzi Seker wrote:
> I have the preamble seen below.
> I need to have the sec, subsec, etc numbers ending with a period like 1.1.,
> 1.1.1. etc...
> I tried the method proposed in the help file of sectsty but i get a lot of
> errors... I tried titlesec, but that gives me a lot of errors too. Any
> idea>
>
> Remzi
> -------------------------- my related preamble ---------------------
> \usepackage{sectsty}
>
> \chapterfont{\normalsize\mdseries\centering}
>
> \newlength{\mySpaceUnder}
> \newlength{\mySpaceOver}
> \setlength{\mySpaceUnder}{0.5ex} % 4cm as an example ;-)
> \setlength{\mySpaceOver}{5ex} % 3cm as an example
>
> \renewcommand\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}%
> {\mySpaceOver}%
> {\mySpaceUnder}%
> {\normalfont\small\mdseries\centering}}
>
> \renewcommand\subsection{\@startsection {subsection}{1}{\z@}%
> {\mySpaceOver}%
> {\mySpaceUnder}%
> {\normalfont\small\mdseries\textit}}
>
>
> \renewcommand\subsubsection{%
> \@startsection{subsubsection}{3}{\z@}%
> {3.25ex \@plus1ex \@minus.2ex}%
> {-1em}%
> {\hspace{1cm}\normalsize\mdseries\itshape}%
> }
