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>>>>> On 31 May 91 09:42:28 GMT, smagt@fwi.uva.nl (Patrick van der Smagt) said:
Patrick> Nntp-Posting-Host: chris.fwi.uva.nl

Patrick> In the book I am writing in LaTeX I use \part, \chapter, \section, and
Patrick> so on.  In some cases, I want to start a \part with an introduction,
Patrick> without giving this introduction a separate chapter.  I.e.,

Patrick> 	\part{...}

Patrick> 	...Introductory text...

Patrick> 	\chapter{...}% the first chapter of this part
Patrick> 	...
Patrick> 	\chapter{...}
Patrick> 	...

Patrick> Now, all \labels I make in the introduction get the number of the last
Patrick> \chapter before the current \part.  Obviously, this is not correct.

You're right. The chapter counter should be initialized to zero.

Patrick> But what to do about this?  Since the references in that introduction
Patrick> cannot get a chapter number, there are some options:

Patrick> 	o give each label a number consisting of the part number plus
Patrick> 	  the label number (e.g., (IV.1), (IV.2), ...).  Very ugly?
Patrick> 	o only use the label number (e.g., (1), (2)).

A such introduction should not need labels/references as far as  I can
see.  Anyway  - the generation  of label numbers, from  e.g. equations
depend on how you define their numbering.

Patrick> 	o don't use this kind of introduction, i.e., create a new
Patrick> 	  chapter for it.  That is to say, no text inbetween \part and
Patrick> 	  the next \chapter.  Is this correct, typographically?  If so,
Patrick> 	  then why does the table of contents show the page number of
Patrick> 	  the part?  That seems inconsequent.

At this point I can only agree wholly  hearted.  In  my last thesis, I
changed part, so  that it  didn't  produce line numbers in the  t.o.c.
This is the  best solution  I can see.  To  do this,  you  should just
include:

	\let\opart\part
	\def\part{{\def\thepage{}\opart}}

At the top of you'r document.


/Kresten