Is there a way to avoid this bug, or is using "Different First Page" simply not supported in combination with section breaks? I did look at the documentation for officer::prop_section and noticed that there does not appear to be a section type "first page" or similar. The bug, from what I can tell, is that the "Different First Page" option is applied to the last section in the document, rather than the first. The last page of section 6 (the one with latex captions) will have a page number, though.