[Tex/LaTex] memoir: headings numbering starting at section level

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I'm writing a set of documents using the same memoir based template. One particular document does not use chapter level heading and just section and subsection levels.

I have no chapters but the document seems to use a default chapter 0 so my sections are numbered 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 and so on. How can I disable chapterlevel numbering so I get them numbered 1, 2, 3,…?

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The memory class features an article option, but this option doesn't remove the preceding chapter number for \section headings (although it does so for figure and table floats). Therefore, add the following to your preamble:

\counterwithout{section}{chapter}

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[Tex/LaTex] Turn on subsection numbering in memoir

The correct way to do this, specifically for memoir, IMO, is to use

\setsecnumdepth{subsection}

Why?:

It's a higher-level command --- \setcounter is somewhere in the bowels of memoir/LaTeX
It's semantic --- saying "subsection" is hopelessly more meaningful than saying "2"
It's practical --- it persists across \mainmatter

[Tex/LaTex] Examples of “styles” for section headings with memoir

From the memoir manual:

As well as the emulated packages memoir provides functions equivalent to those in the following packages, although the class does not prevent you from using them: fancyhdr, framed, geometry, sidecap, subfigure, and titlesec.

So is there evidence that memoir and titlesec don't "play nice"? Yes. Although the following example appears to work, some things do get broken. In particular, memoir allows for two optional arguments in a sectioning command (one for the header and one for the TOC) but this will be lost with titlesec. See the following question for detailed discussion:

About memoir and titlesec incompatibility

\documentclass[oneside]{memoir}
\usepackage[small,sf,compact]{titlesec}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\chapter{}
\section{A section}
\subsection{A subsection}
\lipsum
\end{document}

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