[OS X TeX] Section 0 in book class

[Herbert Schulz]

On Mar 8, 2009, at 10:56 PM, Alain Schremmer wrote:

>
> On Mar 8, 2009, at 9:49 PM, Michael Sharpe wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 8, 2009, at 10:43 AM, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>>
>>> I am writing Chapter 13 in one of these multi-authors books and I  
>>> wanted the first section to be
>>>
>>> 	13.0 Introduction
>>>
>> Perhaps you have some other settings that interfere with setting  
>> the section number. The following seems to produce what you want.
>>
>> \documentclass]{book}
>> \begin{document}
>> \setcounter{chapter}{12}
>> \chapter{}
>> \setcounter{section}{-1}
>> \section{Zeroth section}
>> \end{document}
>
> You are absolutely right: Placing \addtocounter{section}{-1} after  
> \chapter does it.
>
> I guess this has to do with the fact that the section number  
> includes the chapter number so I should have thought of it.
>
> Still …
>
> Well, my curiosity has been satisfied.
>
> Grateful regards
> --schremmer

Howdy,

More likely is that the \chapter command resets the section counter to  
zero (that makes a lot of sense) so you must push it back AFTER the  
command.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)