Latex – Change margins of only a few pages

Opendetex is available both for Windows and Linux (compiles fine on a Mac as well). It can be downloaded from https://github.com/pkubowicz/opendetex

Usage:

detex project

opens project.tex, reads all files included using \include or \includeonly commands, outputs resulting text to standard output.

detex -n project > out.txt

opens project.tex, does not follow \include or \includeonly commands, outputs resulting text to out.txt

detex --help

shows full help

Extract it to any directory of your choice. Say you extracted it to your Downloads directory.

Create another directory of any name in that (this is optional but recommended). Let's say the directory name is “my_paper”. Put your paper in the “my_paper” directory. Assume your paper name is project.tex.

Navigate to the path

    cd ~/Downloads/opendetex

Run the command

    detex my_paper/project.tex  > out.txt

generic form

    detex -n full_path_to_tex_file.tex > output_text_file.txt

I think there are three possible solutions (at least!) which don't involve rolling your own or someone else's macro, depending on exactly what you are trying to do.

1 If the numbering is required throughout the document, use \paragraph, which is a lower-level sectioning command (like \chapter, \section, \subsection, etc.)

See the LaTeX wikibook for more information.

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{5}
...
\paragraph{If we want to} do something ... 

(You may find this overkill/ugly, because it needs a properly nested structure of sections and subsections not to be)

Note that if your using the memoir document class (which I recommend unhesitatingly), the \setcounter line becomes \maxsecnumdepth{paragraph}

2 If it's just a small piece, use a list:

\begin{enumerate}
\item Para No. 1
\item Para No. 2
...
\end{enumerate} 

3 Or a generalized list (\begin{list}...\end{list{}) if you want to tweak the formatting. I haven't immediately been able to find a good online reference for this, other than the piece in A Guide to LaTeX