Example draft chapter

A chapter can be marked as a “draft” by renaming the file and adding .draft to the numeric prefix, like this:

010.draft-introduction.md

Draft chapters are not listed in the table of contents, and they are not included in the chapter numberings. (To see in your dev environment how all the drafts would be numbered if they weren’t drafts, set show_drafts_in_dev: true in _config.yml.)

But drafts are listed in the book outline. This enables a workflow in which you start with an outline of your book, made with empty draft chapters having just a title and maybe an abstract, ordered and grouped into parts as needed (and frequently reorganized).

Then you can flesh out the chapters over time, and when ready, remove the .draft from the file name so it appears in the book.

This file is located at: _chapters/020-dummy-chapters/005.draft-example-draft.md