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From: smagt@fwi.uva.nl (Patrick van der Smagt)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: LaTeX bug/feature: A matter of style?
Keywords: referencing, \part, chapter number, LaTeX
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Date: 31 May 91 09:42:28 GMT
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In the book I am writing in LaTeX I use \part, \chapter, \section, and
so on.  In some cases, I want to start a \part with an introduction,
without giving this introduction a separate chapter.  I.e.,

	\part{...}

	...Introductory text...

	\chapter{...}% the first chapter of this part
	...
	\chapter{...}
	...

Now, all \labels I make in the introduction get the number of the last
\chapter before the current \part.  Obviously, this is not correct.
But what to do about this?  Since the references in that introduction
cannot get a chapter number, there are some options:

	o give each label a number consisting of the part number plus
	  the label number (e.g., (IV.1), (IV.2), ...).  Very ugly?
	o only use the label number (e.g., (1), (2)).
	o don't use this kind of introduction, i.e., create a new
	  chapter for it.  That is to say, no text inbetween \part and
	  the next \chapter.  Is this correct, typographically?  If so,
	  then why does the table of contents show the page number of
	  the part?  That seems inconsequent.


						Patrick van der Smagt