This sounds like a feature request, which I take to be referring to
the display in the TOC. My two cents on it:
* Some sections are un-numbered
==section unumbered==
Can you explain where this would be helpful? It would also be handy to
be able to totally suppress certain sections from the TOC.
* Sections and subsections start from a value other
than 1
==section 6==
What would this be useful for?
* Subsections continue numbering upwards regardless of
parent sectioning
==section unumbered==
===subsection 1===
===subsection 2===
==section unumbered==
===subsection 3===
===subsection 4===
Can you give examples of why this would be good?
* Sections numbered with non-numeric numbering
==section A==
==section B==
Again, why?
In total, I think you're requesting a special operator which can go in
a section to control its numbering, someting like as follows:
__SECTNONUM__ (don't number)
__SECTSUBCONT__ (sub sections number continuously)
__SECTALPHA__ (use letters instead of numbers)
__SECTSTARTAT3__ (could be tricky to make work - perhaps something
like __SECTFAKE__ could be used repeatedly instead to bump up the
count)
to which I would add:
__SECTNOTOC__ (don't show the section at all in the TOC)
Steve