What is your desired output? We do all of this in Latex, it requires adding a bit of LaTeX in your preamble.
On Friday, October 13, 2017 at 7:29:52 AM UTC-7, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > > I filed this also as an RFE¹ but haven't gotten any feedback so far; > trying here instead. > > What would be the most plausible way to generate automatic section > numbers with the following requirements: > > - Not all sections are numbered. Multiple blocks of sections *are* > numbered, with the numbering restarting in between. (It seems Sphinx > already handles this case just fine by using multiple toctree > directives, so that's good.) > > - Section numbers need to be preceded by other text, e.g. "Appendix". > > - Different blocks of numbered sections need to use different numbering > schemes. In particular, the aforementioned appendices should use Roman > numerals (I, II, etc.). > > Is there any way to accomplish this that doesn't require either a) > modifying the guts of Sphinx itself, or b) duplicating lots and lots of > low-level Sphinx code? (I initially tried to replicate how Sphinx > auto-numbering works, but it looked like I was going to have to > replicate significant parts of Sphinx for that approach to be feasible.) > > If the right answer is to change Sphinx, what would be the recommended > way to implement these features such that they can be incorporated into > upstream? (And, on a related note, is there a way in Python, or even > better, already in Sphinx itself, to translate integers to Kanji > numbers, Hebrew numbers, etc.?) > > (¹ See also https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/4133.) > > -- > Matthew > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sphinx-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sphinx-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sphinx-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.