How to get un-numbered Preface; Introduction?

Scrivener Markdown & LaTeX
1

I’d like my book TOC to look like this:

Preface
Ch 1: Introduction

PART I
Ch 2: …
Ch 3: …

PART II
Ch 4: …

I cannot figure out how to get Preface (without a chapter #), and Ch 1 (without a container Part). Any suggestions?

Thanks

2

Not sure about memoir, but here’s how it’s done in the LaTeX standard classes:

\chapter*{Preface} \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Preface}

Here’s an example how you can use this in an XSLT file:

	<xsl:template match="html:h2">
	        <xsl:choose>
		   <xsl:when test='contains(node(), "Preface")'>
	                   <xsl:text>\chapter*{</xsl:text>
			   <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
			   <xsl:text>}</xsl:text>
			   <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
			   <xsl:text>\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{</xsl:text>
			   <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
			   <xsl:text>\}</xsl:text>
			   <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
			   <xsl:text>\label{</xsl:text>
			   <xsl:value-of select="@id"/>
			   <xsl:text>}</xsl:text>
			   <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
			   <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
		   </xsl:when>
		   <xsl:otherwise>
	  		   <xsl:text>\chapter{</xsl:text>
			   <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
			   <xsl:text>}</xsl:text>
			   <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
			   <xsl:text>\label{</xsl:text>
		    	   <xsl:value-of select="@id"/>
		 	   <xsl:text>}</xsl:text>
		   	   <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
		    	   <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
		  </xsl:otherwise>
		</xsl:choose>
	</xsl:template>

The problem is that both Scrivener and MMD assume that Part is the top level section. I would use a “dummy” Part that surpresses the LaTeX \part command. Another untested example:

	<xsl:template match="html:h1">
	        <xsl:choose>
		   <xsl:when test='contains(node(), "DUMMY")'>
		   </xsl:when>
		<xsl:otherwise>
	  	   <xsl:text>\part{</xsl:text>
		   <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
		   <xsl:text>}</xsl:text>
		   <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
		   <xsl:text>\label{</xsl:text>
		   <xsl:value-of select="@id"/>
		   <xsl:text>}</xsl:text>
		   <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
		   <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
		</xsl:otherwise>
		</xsl:choose>
	</xsl:template>
3

Have you tried adjusting the Base Header Level in the Multimarkdown Settings dialogue?

A value of 2 gets rid of Parts for me.

4

Thanks! I guess I could always go lo-tech with those Latex snippets:

Body of preface.

Body of introduction.

5

I do not recall if they are unnumbered, but a few of the stylesheet variants support a synopsis or abstract section, which could perhaps be renamed to preface. The XSLTs are all named intuitively, like memoir-synopsis.xslt.