[Tugindia] Re: changing section counter display

[H S Rai]

Today at 1:38am -0500 amitabhtrehan at softhome.net wrote:

>   since this is chapter  4 in the book (which is not  going to be in
>   TeX unfortunately) I  need the numbering to be adjusted  so that 4
>   is prefixed to everything. hope this makes it more clear.

setcounter should help. Chapter  4 starting from page  401 and Chapter
21 starting from page 251 may be done as:

 \cleardoublepage \setcounter{page}{401} \setcounter{chapter}{3}
  \input{chapter4.tex}
 \cleardoublepage \setcounter{page}{251} \setcounter{chapter}{20}
  \input{chapter21.tex}

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