Re: Getting "Chapter" before a heading number

[Peter Davis <pfdavis@fastmail.fm>]

On 12/29/16 5:26 PM, Richard Lawrence wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> writes:
>
>> I'm preparing a proposed table of contents for a book, and I'd like the HTML output to appear like:
>>
>> Chapter 1 Blah
>>    1.1 blah
>>    1.2 blah blah
>>    1.3 blah blah blah
>>
>> Chapter 2 Blah Blah
>>    2.1 blah
>>    2.2 blah blah
>>
>> etc.
>>
>> Is there a way to get HTML output to do this? I'd like the "*" at the start of a line to denote a new chapter, and nested headings
>> to go inside. I haven't been able to find anything like this.
>>
> This might not be exactly what you want, but it's pretty trivial to do
> this with CSS.  In your stylesheet, you want something like (untested):
>
> span.section-number-2:before { content: "Chapter" }
>
> Basically, this tells the browser to put the word "Chapter" before the
> number of a first-level headline (which, in a default setup, is exported
> as a span tag with class section-number-2).
>
> If you'd rather that "Chapter" appears in the actual HTML, you probably
> want to use a filter on headlines during export.
>
> Hope that helps!
Yes, thanks, Richard! This will certainly work for this occasion. It 
would be great to find a way to do this through org in future, for 
documents that keep changing, but this will work for now.

Thanks!
-pd