Chapter starts with 0.1 (not 1.0) in pdf_book format

[kim4597]

Hi all,

When I build the pdf_book (documentclass: krantz),

---
title: "title"
author: "KIM"
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
knit: "bookdown::render_book"
documentclass: krantz
site: bookdown::bookdown_site
fontsize: 12pt
monofont: "Source Code Pro"
monofontoptions: "Scale=0.7"
bibliography: [book.bib, packages.bib]
biblio-style: apalike
link-citations: yes
description: "DrPH Multivariable Analysis."
---

The output (the table of contents and the chapter) starts with 0.1 instead of 1.0 (see image below).

But when I use documentclass::book (see below), bookdown::pdf_book renders the numbering of chapters correctly (FYI, in all the Rmd files I used the single # as the heading for chapter).

--- 
title: "title"
author: |
  | Kamarul Imran
  | Assc Prof (Epidemiology and Statistics)
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
knit: "bookdown::render_book"
documentclass: book
site: bookdown::bookdown_site
fontsize: 12pt
monofont: "Source Code Pro"
monofontoptions: "Scale=0.7"
lot: yes
lof: yes
bibliography: [book.bib, packages.bib]
biblio-style: apalike
link-citations: yes
description: "DrPH Multivariable Analysis."
---

The latex preamble (which was taken almost entirely from bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown preamble latext) is written as below;

\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage[bf,singlelinecheck=off]{caption}

\usepackage{framed,color}
\definecolor{shadecolor}{RGB}{248,248,248}

\renewcommand{\textfraction}{0.05}
\renewcommand{\topfraction}{0.8}
\renewcommand{\bottomfraction}{0.8}
\renewcommand{\floatpagefraction}{0.75}

\renewenvironment{quote}{\begin{VF}}{\end{VF}}
\let\oldhref\href
\renewcommand{\href}[2]{#2\footnote{\url{#1}}}

\ifxetex
  \usepackage{letltxmacro}
  \setlength{\XeTeXLinkMargin}{1pt}
  \LetLtxMacro\SavedIncludeGraphics\includegraphics
  \def\includegraphics#1#{% #1 catches optional stuff (star/opt. arg.)
    \IncludeGraphicsAux{#1}%
  }%
  \newcommand*{\IncludeGraphicsAux}[2]{%
    \XeTeXLinkBox{%
      \SavedIncludeGraphics#1{#2}%
    }%
  }%
\fi

\makeatletter
\newenvironment{kframe}{%
\medskip{}
\setlength{\fboxsep}{.8em}
 \def\at@end@of@kframe{}%
 \ifinner\ifhmode%
  \def\at@end@of@kframe{\end{minipage}}%
  \begin{minipage}{\columnwidth}%
 \fi\fi%
 \def\FrameCommand##1{\hskip\@totalleftmargin \hskip-\fboxsep
 \colorbox{shadecolor}{##1}\hskip-\fboxsep
     % There is no \\@totalrightmargin, so:
     \hskip-\linewidth \hskip-\@totalleftmargin \hskip\columnwidth}%
 \MakeFramed {\advance\hsize-\width
   \@totalleftmargin\z@ \linewidth\hsize
   \@setminipage}}%
 {\par\unskip\endMakeFramed%
 \at@end@of@kframe}
\makeatother

\makeatletter
\@ifundefined{Shaded}{
}{\renewenvironment{Shaded}{\begin{kframe}}{\end{kframe}}}
\makeatother

\newenvironment{rmdblock}[1]
  {
  \begin{itemize}
  \renewcommand{\labelitemi}{
    \raisebox{-.7\height}[0pt][0pt]{
      {\setkeys{Gin}{width=3em,keepaspectratio}\includegraphics{images/#1}}
    }
  }
  \setlength{\fboxsep}{1em}
  \begin{kframe}
  \item
  }
  {
  \end{kframe}
  \end{itemize}
  }
\newenvironment{rmdnote}
  {\begin{rmdblock}{note}}
  {\end{rmdblock}}
\newenvironment{rmdcaution}
  {\begin{rmdblock}{caution}}
  {\end{rmdblock}}
\newenvironment{rmdimportant}
  {\begin{rmdblock}{important}}
  {\end{rmdblock}}
\newenvironment{rmdtip}
  {\begin{rmdblock}{tip}}
  {\end{rmdblock}}
\newenvironment{rmdwarning}
  {\begin{rmdblock}{warning}}
  {\end{rmdblock}}

\usepackage{makeidx}
\makeindex

\urlstyle{tt}

\usepackage{amsthm}
\makeatletter
\def\thm@space@setup{%
  \thm@preskip=8pt plus 2pt minus 4pt
  \thm@postskip=\thm@preskip
}
\makeatother

\frontmatter

What have I done wrong? Really appreciate your time in attending this problem. Thank you.

KIM

[cderv]

Hi,

can you format your question correctly to help us understand better and see what your rmd file really look like ?

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---
title:"test"
---
Text
# code chunk
```{r, eval = FALSE}
cat("test")
```

For your issue, it could be related to not having a title 1 in your Rmarkdown. If you begin with a ## for the first title in your document, and not a title with #, it will began the count to 0. However, not seing your code correctly, I am not sure...

[kim4597]

Hi Christophe,

Thanks for your advice. I have edited my post and I think it looks much better now.

I realized the chapter number starts with zero when I use documentclass: krantz in the yaml metadata. If I use documentclass: book, the chapter number starts correctly with 1. I pressume the issue lies either within the krantz.cls or preamble.tex.

I love to use krantz documentclass because it looks more beautiful than the book documentclass.

Thanks again.

KIM

[kim4597]

Hi Christophe,

I have found the solution, that is by adding this (below) in the _output.yml

pandoc_args: --top-level-division=chapter

So, the _output.yml becomes

bookdown::gitbook:
  config:
    toc:
    download: [pdf, epub]
bookdown::html_chapters:
  css: [style.css, toc.css]
bookdown::pdf_book:
  includes:
    in_header: preamble.tex
    before_body: before_body.tex
    after_body: after_body.tex
  latex_engine: xelatex
  citation_package: natbib
  keep_tex: yes
  pandoc_args: --top-level-division=chapter
  toc_depth: 3
  toc_unnumbered: no
  toc_appendix: yes
bookdown::epub_book:
  dev: svglite
  stylesheet: style.css

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[kim4597]

Thanks for the advice. I did that just now.

KIM

[antaldaniel]

I think that this may be then an issue with the bookdown book preface and the class book. Not using documentclass: krantz but :book I have exactly the same issue, and I have no idea how to come around it. The solution you suggest does not help.