On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 6:29 PM Sebastian Urban <[email protected]> wrote: > > One other thing is that chapter numbers in the sidebar really makes it > > clear what is a chapter and what is an appendix or other unnumbered > > top-level section. > > This is a good point, especially for distinguishing chapters from > appendices. > > > Do you have any thoughts on just having numbers for the chapters but > > not for any subordinate sections? The problem is worse for > > subordinate section numbers like "18.3.4" which take up more space. > > This could be a nice compromise, after all chapter is part of the > document, so it's smaller and easier to navigate, than whole document.
I've done this, not as a compromise per se but because I think it's an improvement. It still needs to be tested under XeTeX.
