Re: Using @chapter but starting from an arbitrary number, 6 say.

[Gavin Smith]

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 09:19:15PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> 
> I am using @chapter in a document. The chapters start with
> the numerical value of 1. Is there a possibility to start
> the chapters from another number, e.e., from chapter 6.

There's no supported way of doing it.  Why do you want to do this?

If it is just dvi/pdf output you care about you can do

@tex
\global\chapno=5
@end tex

before the first chapter, but this is not guaranteed to work in the 
future.

Using @chapter but starting from an arbitrary number, 6 say.

[Christopher Dimech]

I am using @chapter in a document. The chapters start with
the numerical value of 1. Is there a possibility to start
the chapters from another number, e.e., from chapter 6.