unnumbered chapters

unnumbered chapters

[Alan BRASLAU]

A standard (wiki, manual) means of obtaining an unnumbered chapter
is to use \title, but this does not create an entry into the toc.
So one can create a new head, as in:

\definehead [unnumberedchapter] [chapter]
\setuphead  [unnumberedchapter] [number=no]
\definecombinedlist [content] [unnumberedchapter,chapter,section]
\setuplist  [unnumberedchapter] [headnumber=no]

Bof! (pardon my French, as they say in polite circles)


Much easier (or cleaner if you wish), using the structured syntax, is:

\startchapter [number=no,incrementnumber=no,
               title={Conclusions}]
\stopchapter

(The {} are not necessary, but I believe that this may make things more
readable, given the practice to enclose typeset text within curly braces.)



A problem occurs, though, if we use labels, as in:

\setuplabeltext [chapter={Chapter }] % with trailing space; blank by default

(which Hans *never, ever* uses, by the way...)
We then get:
Chapter 1 First
Chapter 2 Second
Chapter Conclusions


I think that the macros are missing a "label=no" option.
Unless, that is, I am missing something obvious.

Alan
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