Glad to hear it! And now there's a thread in the email archive that anyone wanting to know that in the future can locate, which also explains the method by which the answer was learned, since it's not every day that you get an almost immediate answer to a question sent to a help forum...

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 12:10 PM Michael Shea <address@hidden> wrote:

Karl,

Thanks alot. Works like a charm. 

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Karl Hegbloom <address@hidden> wrote:

On Ubuntu Linux, I find /usr/share/TeXmacs/styles and /usr/share/TeXmacs/packages and in the various subdirectories there, I find the .ts files that define things like that. I've learned quite a lot by opening those files with TeXmacs and viewing them.

So in /usr/share/TeXmacs/packages/section/section-base.ts I find the new-section macro. It calls new-counter. So there are "counters" for those, and thus you can very probably set them... I find /usr/share/TeXmacs/packages/standard/std-counter.ts and within it, I learned about the new-counter macro, which is right at the top.

It turns out that you can use   \assign section-nr 7   before the first appearance of a   \section   to start your article with section 8.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 8:59 AM Michael Shea <address@hidden> wrote:

Suppose I want the start an article with a section number other than one. How can I change the number?