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Date:         Thu, 3 Feb 1994 09:25:25 LCL
From: Mike Piff <M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk>
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Subject:      Re: Another optional argument for \section etc. ?
Status: R

%>From:          Adrian F Clark <alien@essex.ac.uk>
%>JKM> May I ask for this new feature?
%>JKM> Add a second optional argument to the command \chapter, \section, etc. in
%>JKM> the following manner:
%>JKM>
%>JKM> \section[toc entry]{Actual section header, maybe looonnnngggg}[Running
%> head]
%>
%>If one is allowe to vote new features in, I would also be very pleased
%>to see this.  There are quite a few occasions where I have had to
%>start fiddling about with running heads just because the section title
%>is rather long.  Such a feature would be upwards-compatible (very
%>important IMHO) and increase flexibility.
%>

I agree with this suggestion. Could I also suggest that \section* etc should
also have a form
\section*[toc entry]{Actual heading}[Running head]
in which case the \section* *does* produce a TOC entry?

(It is common to include Preface, Acknowledgements, etc in TOC.)

One can of course do

\def\Section#1#2#3#4#5{%
    \section*{#1}%
    \markxxx{#2}%
    \addtocontents{toc}{#3}%
    \openmfpicfile{#4}%
    \opensolutionfile{#5}%
    \def\solf{#5}%
    ...
}

\def\endSection{%
    \inputsolutions{\solf}%
    ...
}


and use
\begin{Section}

\end{Section}

or whatever, at the risk of appearing controversial.-)

Mike


Mike


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