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Manual numbering in bookdown

Is it possible to control chapter/section numbering in bookdown?

e.g. 

# Introduction {1}
# Theory {14}
# Methods {3}

would give the following in the output...

1. Introduction
14. Theory
3. Methods
Solution

  • Sorry for the late answer, but I've just bumped into the same issue.

    If you globally turn off numbering, adding the line

    number_sections: false

    under bookdown::gitbook: to your _output.yml file, then you can number your chapters and sections in any way you like:

    # 1. Introduction

    # 14. Theory

    # 3. Methods

    To repeat: my _output.yml file contains the lines

    bookdown::gitbook:
  number_sections: false