From 112154efdea1867f3ef58ae6145818a4100b29ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:36:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix top section level determination.

---
 sphinx/writers/latex.py | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sphinx/writers/latex.py b/sphinx/writers/latex.py
index f9b78793f..51e043c1d 100644
--- a/sphinx/writers/latex.py
+++ b/sphinx/writers/latex.py
@@ -228,13 +228,13 @@ class LaTeXTranslator(nodes.NodeVisitor):
         self.footnotestack = []
         self.curfilestack = []
         self.handled_abbrs = set()
-        if self.elements['docclass'] == 'manual':
+        if document.settings.docclass == 'howto':
+            self.top_sectionlevel = 2
+        else:
             if builder.config.latex_use_parts:
                 self.top_sectionlevel = 0
             else:
                 self.top_sectionlevel = 1
-        else:
-            self.top_sectionlevel = 2
         self.next_section_target = None
         # flags
         self.verbatim = None