Section numbering with Roman Numerals

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Section numbering with Roman Numerals

be.wood
I am trying to figure out how to number some sections with Roman Numerals (preferably lowercase, but in general). What I'm looking to do is have some early sections numbered like this:

i. Forward
ii. Glossary

and then move on to the normal section numbering

1. Introduction
2. stuff

And to have each one independently tracked (so the the Introduction wouldn't be 3 in this case, but would restart).

I can find how to add Appendices, but not how to do something like this (if it is possible).

Thank you
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Re: Section numbering with Roman Numerals

mojavelinux
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This is not something that is supported out of the box. You can do it, but you need to manipulate the parsed document yourself. You can do so using a TreeProcessor.

What you are looking for is the `numeral` property on the section nodes. This property accepts a string, so you can set it to whatever you  want.

Here's an example:

Asciidoctor::Extensions.register do
  tree_processor do
    process do |doc|
      sections = doc.sections
      sections[0].numeral = 'i'
      sections[1].numeral = 'ii'
      (sections.slice 2, sections.length).each do |sect|
        sect.numeral = sect.numeral.to_i - 2
      end
      nil
    end
  end
end


Cheers,

-Dan

On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 2:57 PM be.wood [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <[hidden email]> wrote:
I am trying to figure out how to number some sections with Roman Numerals (preferably lowercase, but in general). What I'm looking to do is have some early sections numbered like this:

i. Forward
ii. Glossary

and then move on to the normal section numbering

1. Introduction
2. stuff

And to have each one independently tracked (so the the Introduction wouldn't be 3 in this case, but would restart).

I can find how to add Appendices, but not how to do something like this (if it is possible).

Thank you


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