JNowellUF
commented
6 months ago I know this is a bit old, but since we were talking about some stuff along these lines via email, I have to ask - what are you referring to here with "article does not come packaged with a title"? the \title and \maketitle commands work normally in the article documentclass, as do (sub)sections and "parts", although I believe chapters are not natively included (but can be added easily enough if that is desired).
These could be made to play better with the standard
\section
\chapter
BUT since article does not come packaged with a title, we'd need to make ximera's default be more like "report" than article.
Maybe, we'd just need "xourse" to be more like report than article....
The code would be quite simple:
\newcommand\sectionstyle{\def\maketitle{\section\@title}}
Numbers and no numbers can be implemented easy with if and *
this would play better than the current implementation.