4.2 Hierarchical Structure

LaTeX expects documents to be arranged in a conventional, hierarchical way, with chapters, sections, sub-sections, appendixes, and the like. These are marked using macros rather than environments, probably because the end of a section can be safely inferred when a section of equal or higher level starts.

There are six ``levels'' of sectioning in the document classes used for Python documentation, and the deepest two levels¹ are not used. The levels are:

Level	Macro Name	Notes
1	`\chapter`	(1)
2	`\section`
3	`\subsection`
4	`\subsubsection`
5	`\paragraph`	(2)
6	`\subparagraph`

Notes:

(1): Only used for the manual documents, as described in section 5, ``Document Classes.''
(2): Not the same as a paragraph of text; nobody seems to use this.

Footnotes

... levels ¹: The deepest levels have the highest numbers in the table.

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