Supress chapter number in sections

Supress chapter number in sections

[Randall Skelton]

I've fiddled with almost every parameter in sethead but cannot seem to
find the correct one.  I'd like to suppress the chapter numbers in a
relatively large document such that numbering of sections, tables,
figures and equations begins at 1 instead of 1.1.  Is there a simple
way to do this?

Here are how my chapters and sections are currently defined:

\def\MyChapterText#1{\leftaligned{#1}}

\setuphead[Topic,chapter]
  [textcommand=\MyChapterText,
   textstyle={\switchtobodyfont[Titling,20pt]\sc},
   color=black,
   number=no,
   page=right,
   continue=no,
   header=empty,
   distance=0pt,
   before=\vbox to 3cm\bgroup,
   after=\vss\egroup]

\def\MySectionText#1{\switchtobodyfont[12pt]\sc\lowercase{#1}}

\setuphead[Subject, section]
  [textcommand=\MySectionText,
   style={\sc},
   color=black,
   before={\blank[2*big]},
   after={\blank[2*big]}]

Many thanks,
Randall

Re: Supress chapter number in sections

[Duncan Hothersall]

Randall Skelton wrote:

> I've fiddled with almost every parameter in sethead but cannot seem to
> find the correct one.  I'd like to suppress the chapter numbers in a
> relatively large document such that numbering of sections, tables,
> figures and equations begins at 1 instead of 1.1.  Is there a simple
> way to do this?

Hi Randall. It's a slightly confusing one - this behaviour is actually
controlled via the \setupsection command, which deals with the
high-level behaviour of sectioning commands like \chapter and
(confusingly!) \section. The setup you want is

\setupsection[section-3][previousnumber=no]

The rationale is that \part is section-1, \chapter is section-2 and
\section is section-3. See the manual entry for \setupsection for more info.

Duncan

Re: Supress chapter number in sections

[Randall Skelton]

> Hi Randall. It's a slightly confusing one - this behaviour is actually
> controlled via the \setupsection command, which deals with the
> high-level behaviour of sectioning commands like \chapter and
> (confusingly!) \section. The setup you want is
> 
> \setupsection[section-3][previousnumber=no]
> 
> The rationale is that \part is section-1, \chapter is section-2 and
> \section is section-3. See the manual entry for \setupsection for more info.

Thanks Duncan, the above does exactly what I want for the section
numbers.  Is there a way to do this for figure and equation numbers as
well?

Cheers,
Randall

Re: Supress chapter number in sections

[Randall Skelton]

I'm bumping my last question here...  As Duncan suggested,

\setupsection[section-3][previousnumber=no]

supresses the chapter section numbers in my section headings.  Is
there an easy way to do likewise for the figure and equation numbers
such that the numbering does not include the chapter number?

Cheers,
Randall

Re: Supress chapter number in sections

[Duncan Hothersall]

Randall wrote:

> I'm bumping my last question here...  As Duncan suggested,
> 
> \setupsection[section-3][previousnumber=no]
> 
> supresses the chapter section numbers in my section headings.  Is 
> there an easy way to do likewise for the figure and equation numbers 
> such that the numbering does not include the chapter number?

(Stirred into action by a namecheck :-))

This will change all numbering to just be sequential throughout a text,
rather than run by chapter:
\setupnumbering[way=bytext]

Duncan