Comment 2 for bug 451904

Ok. I think I could be persuaded to go this way.

What about if we leave \part as you have it now, and add a \chapter which is the same as \part except that it starts a new page with a 2in top margin?

\chapter could produce a heading like the Appendixes:

              CHAPTER 1
    THIS IS THE TITLE OF CHAPTER 1

The problem of the table of contents is *less* significant, since you would be less likely to use it in an Essay, than, say something like a Thesis, which would have chapters. However, the student supplement does ask for a table of contents for anything over 15 pages, which could conceivably happen for a longer essay. But then perhaps the exact choice of headings and styles could be up to the user in these cases. So long as we provide \part and \chapter it should be ok. I would recommend formatting \chapter in the table of contents in the same way as appendixes (CHAPTER 1: CHAPTER TITLE).

As far your comments on Centering and creating the 2in top margin, I agree with you that it should be consistent. My development has been a bit haphazard and it would be good to have a macro that could be called that just worked. Using the \vrule hack along with {\centering } could still be the easiest way to do things. I've noted a number of occasions when \afterpage{\topskip=0in} fails for various reasons. The macro could also include \thispagestyle{plain} too.