sergio@helios.sixcom.it (Sergio Scola) (03/01/91)
I'm using LaTeX for document preparation and writing a
document with the following style, and layout:
\documentstyle[12pt,suthesis]{report}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter{Introduction}
\input{intro.tex}
\chapter{First chapter}
\input{chap1.tex}
\chapter{Second chapter}
\input{chap2.tex}
\chapter{Third chapter}
\input{chap3.tex}
\chapter{Conclusions}
\input{concl.tex}
\bibliography{main}
\end{document}
I would like to avoid the printing of the word ``Chapter'' for first, and
last chapter (i.e. Introduction, and Conclusions). The result should be:
Contents
1 Introduction
2 First chapter
3 Second chapter
4 Third chapter
5 Conclusisons
Bibliography
Introduction
:
Chapter 1
First chapter
:
Chapter 2
Second chapter
:
Chapter 3
Third Chapter
:
Conclusions
:
Bibliography
:
Please e-mail answer to ``sergio@sixcom.it''.
Thanks in advance for any help.
--
Sergio Scola
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`--------------------------------------------------------------------------'dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) (03/02/91)
In article <sergio.667824377@helios>, sergio@helios.sixcom.it (Sergio Scola) writes: > I'm using LaTeX for document preparation and writing a > document with the following style, and layout: > \documentstyle[12pt,suthesis]{report} > \begin{document} > \tableofcontents > \chapter{Introduction} > \input{intro.tex} > \chapter{First chapter} > \input{chap1.tex} > \chapter{Second chapter} > \input{chap2.tex} > \chapter{Third chapter} > \input{chap3.tex} > \chapter{Conclusions} > \input{concl.tex} > \bibliography{main} > \end{document} > I would like to avoid the printing of the word ``Chapter'' for first, and > last chapter (i.e. Introduction, and Conclusions). The result should be: > Contents > 1 Introduction > 2 First chapter > 3 Second chapter > 4 Third chapter > 5 Conclusisons > Bibliography > Introduction > : > Chapter 1 > First chapter > : > Chapter 2 > Second chapter > : > Chapter 3 > Third Chapter > : > Conclusions > : > Bibliography > : I've discussed this problem extensively with some of the people involved in the LaTeX 3 project (and if you're thinking of asking whether it will be seen soon, I say "don't count on it!" (and please don't send me e-mail cause that's the answer you'll get--assuming I answer at all, kind of makes me wonder why I even bother mentioning it all in the first place). Now the first inclination might be to use \chapter* for the two indicated chapters. Bad plan. One, it won't produce toc entries or affect the page headers unless you do that manually, which you probably would want to avoid (see my posting on "elegant" vs. "working" solutions). Two, you will run into problems when it comes time to number the subsections etc. inside the chapter. A better solution turned out to be to define commands \frontmatter, \body and \backmatter to divide up the document. The following gives an example definition of these commands and an outline LaTeX file to show the power: \documentstyle{report} \newcommand{\frontmatter}{\pagenumbering{roman}\setcounter{secnumdepth}{-10}} \newcommand{\body}{\pagenumbering{arabic}\setcounter{secnumdepth}{2}} \newcommand{\backmatter}{\setcounter{secnumdepth{-10}} .. \begin{document} \frontmatter \chapter{Preface} .. \body \chapter{First chapter} .. \chapter{Second chapter} .. \backmatter \chapter{Conclusions} \bibliography{foo} \end{document} The above does not handle a Conclusions chapter which precedes an Appendix; that would require a redefinition of \appendix which would be trivial, really. Also, there are still problems with non-sectioning structures "numbered within" chapters (e.g. equation, figure, table) that appear in the numbered chapters. However, those should be rare, at the least. -dh --- Don Hosek To retrieve files from ymir via the | dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu mailserver, send a message to | Quixote TeX Consulting mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu with a | 714-625-0147 line saying send [DIRECTORY]FILENAME where DIRECTORY is the FTP directory (sans "anonymous") and FILENAME is the filename, e.g. "send [tex]00readme.txt". There is a list of files in each directory under the name 00files.txt Binary files are not available by this technique.