Re: Second level before the first level headline?

It makes sense that an Introduction stands alone outside PARTs but
then it's semantically a level-1 section.

If the publisher (or you) decide to have its heading smaller than a
PART, that's a formatting choice, not sematic.
At best its semantics is "a special kind of level-1 section".
How about::

    .. class:: front-matter

    --------------
    Prefatory Note
    --------------

    text...

    .. class:: front-matter

    ------------
    Introduction
    ------------

    text...

    -----------
    PART I. FOO
    -----------

    I. BAR
    ------

And then use CSS to style ``div.section.front-matter h1`` differently.
(Classes work with rst2html, ignored by pandoc)

Actually, looking at the Gutenberg link, I see PREPATORY NOTE,
INTRODUCTION and PARTs all "formatted" in the same way (capitals after
``* * * `` line).
If you're happy with that, maybe you don't need any special classes/styling.

On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 4:35 AM, Matěj Cepl <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to reformat the book “The Everlasting Man” by Gilbert Keith
> Chesterton. I found a public domain text on
> http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100311.txt and I would like to
> reformat it into rST and regenerate as ePub with pandoc (or perhaps even
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/epubmaker/). The rST file I have created is
> http://mcepl.fedorapeople.org/tmp/everlasting-man.rst
>
> The problem is that the ePub I have created
> (http://mcepl.fedorapeople.org/tmp/everlasting-man.epub) has completely
> wrong structure. I cannot change the fact that Chesterton (or the
> publisher, more likely) decided that the Introduction (level 2 heading)
> precedes The Part I. (level 1 heading). See the attached screenshot of
> the outline how it is wrong.
>
> Is there way how to persuade pandoc (or other rST tools) that what I
> want to be the level 2 heading (marked by single dashes underlining) is
> really that, and that level 1 heading is marked by by both underlining
> and overlining?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Matěj
>
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