JMarc,
Many thanks; I shall fire up and try your first recommended approach.
Will post outcome here for future readers.
Bruce W
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 13:15 +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Ernest Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Bruce> The captioned reference, from the User Guide, appears clear
> Bruce> enough and works well in the "Section" environment but the
> Bruce> option is, as far as I can see, not available in the "Section*"
> Bruce> environment.
>
> Bruce> Not sure of the rationale for this decision.
>
> Section* layouts do not appear in the table of contents, and LaTeX
> does not offer a way of specifying an optional caption in these cases.
> Therefore there is not much we can do about it.
>
> Bruce> My problem is typesetting an old-fashioned book where, for the
> Bruce> their pains, the authors- translators have chosen to head each
> Bruce> separate article along the lines of "Article XXIV - The old
> Bruce> system of wars of position and the modern system of marches"
> Bruce> and the Roman numerals run sequentially (regardless of chapter)
> Bruce> through the book.
>
> You can use normal Section and redefine at LaTeX level how sections
> appear. Something like this in the preamble
> \usepackage{remreset}
> \renewcommand{\thesection}{Article \Roman{section}}
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> will do what you want with normal Section layout, although it will not
> show on screen (in 1.4.0 it will be possible to see the right thing on
> screen if you make a (short) layout file).
>
> Concerning not resetting sections, you can also use the article class
> and use parts instead of chapters. Then your preamble can be just
> \renewcommand{\thesection}{Article \Roman{section}}
>
> Hope this helps.
> JMarc
