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Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: chapter numbering

From: David Cramer <dcramer@broadjump.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,Wlodzimierz Skiba <abx@abx.art.pl>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 09:50:05 -0600

The Chicago Manual of Style (14th ed) agrees with you and the stylesheets. : "Chapters within parts are numbered consecutively thorugh the book (_not_ beginning over with 1 in each part)" (Section 1.65).

David

> but, semantically speaking, i *would* expect the first formatting.
> a part is defined as just a division in a book, not a complete
> resetting of properties like chapter numbers.