How to keep continuous numbering of subsections across sections?

[Linyeir]

Hi everyone

I’m writing our student body’s statutes in Typst and I’d like the final document to look like this:

§23 Ballot papers

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IV Meetings

§24 Public nature of meetings

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To structure the document, I’m currently using sections and subsections like this:

== Ballot papers  
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= Meetings

== Public nature of meetings  
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This works for hierarchy, but it breaks the continuous numbering of the “§” paragraphs — Typst restarts the numbering after each new = (chapter).

I already tried sillyfreak’s solution from this thread:

#show heading.where(level: 2): set heading(numbering: (_, ..nums) => numbering("§1", ..nums))

but as he mentioned, this approach stops working as soon as the higher-level chapters (=) have their own numbering. And i don’t really get how to adapt the enum solutions from that thread to headings.

Is there a clean way to make all == headings share one continuous counter for the “§” numbers, regardless of what section (=) they appear in?

Or is there another way to structure the document that is more “the typst way”?

[Andrew]

Hi. Use a separate counter.

#let section = counter("section")

#show heading.where(level: 1): set heading(numbering: "I")
#show heading.where(level: 2): it => section.step() + it
#show heading.where(level: 2): set heading(
  numbering: (..) => context numbering("§1", ..section.get()),
  // numbering: (..) => sym.section + context numbering("1", ..section.get()),
)

#counter(heading).update(3)
#section.update(22)

== Ballot papers
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= Meetings

== Public nature of meetings
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[Linyeir]

Thank you!