Re: [Docutils-users] Re: Preface and Table of Contents

[Morten L. J. <mor...@if...>]

Felix Wiemann wrote:
> Morten Lied Johansen wrote:
> 
>>Another problem is that I'd like to have the preface unnumbered, and
>>not listed in the ToC, but as far as I can gather, nobody has done the
>>work needed to extend the sectnum directive...?
> 
> As David pointed out, that isn't easily possible; I'd use the following
> workaround:
> 
> Put the preface into a separate file::
> 
>     ================
>      Document Title
>     ================
> 
>     Preface
>     =======
> 
>     This is the preface.
> 
> At the top of the file containing the actual contents, put::
> 
>     .. contents::
> 
>     .. sectnum::
> 
>     First chapter
>     =============
> 
>     Here comes the first chapter...
> 
> Process the two reST files to LaTeX code and merge the two LaTeX
> documents together into one.

This works like a charm, especially since comments are propagated, so I 
can do some automated processing in a makefile to clue the two pieces 
together. Now all I need is an automated way of picking out the part of 
a file that lies between two lines, so that I can add appendixes! ;)

Thanks for the help, both of you. :)

-- 
Morten