Randall Skelton wrote:

I've fiddled with almost every parameter in sethead but cannot seem to find the correct one. I'd like to suppress the chapter numbers in a relatively large document such that numbering of sections, tables, figures and equations begins at 1 instead of 1.1. Is there a simple way to do this?

Hi Randall. It's a slightly confusing one - this behaviour is actually controlled via the \setupsection command, which deals with the high-level behaviour of sectioning commands like \chapter and (confusingly!) \section. The setup you want is \setupsection[section-3][previousnumber=no] The rationale is that \part is section-1, \chapter is section-2 and \section is section-3. See the manual entry for \setupsection for more info. Duncan