Formatting of the last element before a new section gets distorted in a GitBook.

[GegznaV]

Formatting of the last element in the chapter before a new section gets distorted in a GitBook. I used the same project as in #661, thus session information is the same. To reproduce the problem:

1. Open minimal bookdown example in RStudio.
2. Create file 01.Rmd with contents: # (PART\*) Section {-}.

3. Build a GitBook.
4. Scroll to the end of Chapter 2, whis is before the new section:

If the section (01.Rmd) is removed, the formatting of the element is correct:

[yihui]

Since you have already got the reproducible example in your hands, why not upload it as a zip file here? That way, I don't have to repeat the work that you have already done by following your steps: https://yihui.name/en/2018/06/copy-and-run/ Thanks!

[GegznaV]

The project:
bookdown-issue-662--section-distortions.zip

At first, please, investigate contents of folder "_book" and compare the lists of references in Chapter 1 and Chapter 2.

[GegznaV]

Any news on solving this issue? @RLesur Maybe you have time to look into this?

[RLesur]

@GegznaV I had a quick look. My problem is that I do not understand your use case and your goal.

2. Create file 01.Rmd with contents: # (PART\*) Section {-}.

Why do you need this file with such a content?
If I do not create this file and insert # (PART\*) Section {-} as the first line of 02-literature.Rmd, the gitbook seems to be correct.

[cderv]

Thank you all for your patience!

This is indeed a current limitation of bookdown design that we have now documented better: https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/markdown-extensions-by-bookdown.html#special-headers

A part title should be written right before the first chapter title in this part, both title in the same document.

So the advice is to do as said in #662 (comment) : the special header must be set in the same document as the first chapter.

We know that this would be a limitation when writing a book and the chapter order will change. In that case you would like to have your part section on their own. It happened sometimes and it is a special case so it is why we will track this issue in #974
but that is not an easy thing to change I think and it feels like adding the special header in the chapter file is a easy to do. Please give a 👍 to the other issue if it matters for you.

Thank you.

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