[OS X TeX] Question about changing subsection name

[Charilaos Skiadas]

Does this fix it:

\documentclass[]{article}
\providecommand\subsectionname{subsection}
\renewcommand{\subsectionname}{section}


And perhaps if someone could explain to me what \subsectionname does,  
and what the added \providecommand does? I basically just found this  
suggestion in
http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~anup/homepage/UNIX/latex.html
but had never encountered \subsectionname before.

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College

On Jun 14, 2008, at 5:00 PM, Michael Kubovy wrote:

> Can anyone tell me why this is failing with
>
> ! LaTeX Error: \subsectionname undefined.
>
> See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>  ...
>
> l.2 \renewcommand{\subsectionname}
>                                   {section}
> ?
>
> ***************
> file
> ***************
>
> \documentclass[]{article}
> \renewcommand{\subsectionname}{section}
>
> \usepackage[pdftex,backref,breaklinks]{hyperref}
> \begin{document}
> \section{One}
>
> \subsection{OneOne}
> \label{ss:oneone}
>
> XXX
>
> \section{Two}
> \autoref{ss:oneone}
>
> \end{document}
>
> ***************
> end
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