LaTeX template: Respect numbersections for books

[adunning]

Ensure that \part and \chapter are only numbered if numbersections is set. To return to the previous behaviour, use -V numbersections -V secnumdepth=0.

With the Pandoc 2.5 template, one has to set numbersections to remove part/chapter numbering:

pandoc -o chnum.pdf << EOT

---
documentclass: book
numbersections: true
secnumdepth: -2
---

# Test

# Test

EOT

[jgm]

Can you explain how this works? I don't understand what setting this to -2 does...

[adunning]

Setting secnumdepth is a bit counterintuitive:

1 = Number \section
0 = Number \chapter
-1 = Number \part
-2 = No numbering

[jgm]

Setting secnumdepth is a bit counterintuitive:

like so much in LaTeX...