This sounds like a feature request, which I take to be referring to the display in the TOC. My two cents on it:
- Some sections are un-numbered ==section unumbered==
Can you explain where this would be helpful? It would also be handy to be able to totally suppress certain sections from the TOC.
- Sections and subsections start from a value other than 1 ==section 6==
What would this be useful for?
- Subsections continue numbering upwards regardless of parent sectioning ==section unumbered== ===subsection 1=== ===subsection 2=== ==section unumbered== ===subsection 3=== ===subsection 4===
Can you give examples of why this would be good?
- Sections numbered with non-numeric numbering ==section A== ==section B==
Again, why?
In total, I think you're requesting a special operator which can go in a section to control its numbering, someting like as follows:
__SECTNONUM__ (don't number) __SECTSUBCONT__ (sub sections number continuously) __SECTALPHA__ (use letters instead of numbers) __SECTSTARTAT3__ (could be tricky to make work - perhaps something like __SECTFAKE__ could be used repeatedly instead to bump up the count)
to which I would add:
__SECTNOTOC__ (don't show the section at all in the TOC)
Steve