Re: How to auto-renumber chapters

[András Simonyi]

Dear All,

On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 at 10:41, Sharon Kimble
<boudiccas@skimble09.plus.com> wrote:

> I now have
> ** Chapter 2
> blah
> ** Chapter 2
> blah de blah
> How can I get these new chapters to autorenumber themselves please, so that 
> they will show Chapter 2, Chapter 3

one way of doing the required renumbering would be performing a
regular expression-based replacement (using the replace-regexp or
query-replace-regexp commands) along the following lines:

regular expression: ^** Chapter \([0-9]+\)
replacement: ** Chapter \,(+ \# 1)

This assumes that the headings to be renumbered have the form "**
Chapter ##.." and the numbering should start with 1 so might need to
be adapted slightly to your use case.

best wishes,
András

> Thanks
>   Sharon.
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