.cls
) files
to find out what to do. For example, suppose you wanted to have
References in a book rather than Bibliography. If you look in
book.cls you'll see \newcommand\bibname{Bibliography}so adding
\renewcommand{\bibname}{References}to your file should achieve what you want.
Counters (e.g. figure) have related commands (e.g. thefigure) to control their appearance, so they're easy to customise
\renewcommand\thefigure{\roman{figure}}produces figure numbers in lower case roman numerals. Longer commands can be adapted too. Remember however, that if the command involves a
@
you have to enclose your changes in \makeatletter
...
\makeatother
. Here's an example that changes the appearance of
section headings - \makeatletter \renewcommand{\section}{\@startsection{section}{1}{0mm} {\baselineskip}% {\baselineskip}{\normalfont\normalsize\scshape\centering}}% \makeatother \begin{document}