Re: Getting "Chapter" before a heading number

[Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu>]

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!
 
Best,
Richard