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Thanks. I'll give it a try

Dear all,

I am using the biblatex-dw package for referencing, and chose the style=footnote-dw option to list all references in footnotes. I was able to adjust the fonts of the author names, and some other little things by writing:
\usepackage[
style=footnote-dw,
namefont=smallcaps,
idemfont ...

Thank you a lot localghost ! This already helped a lot!

I succeeded in placing a * in front of the section numbers, but still have some problems with the contents.

I am using the minitoc package to produce a mini table of contents at the start of my chapter. When I star a section, no star appears ...

Dear all,

I'm writing a book, and some of the sections in my chapters are optional .

In order to make this clear to the reader I would like to add a * in front of the number of those sections (both in the text, and in the contents). For example, I want to change

6.1.1 Historical prelude

to ...