[pmwiki-users] Re : PageTableOfContents broken

[Simon]

John

I for one would love to see this recipe given a little TLC

Simon



On 30 September 2011 17:38, John Rankin <john.rankin at affinity.co.nz> wrote:

> >
> >>As the original co-author (along with Christian Ridderstrom) of pagetoc,
> >>I'm aware that it's a bit of a neglected child. There have also been some
> >>recent efforts to rectify its shortcomings. Is it still fit for purpose,
> >>or does it need an overhaul and general update?
> >
> > I can't really tell. I'm using pagetoc with a specific cookbook,
> txt2tags:
> > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Txt2tags
> >
> > I had no problem with it until I decided to change:
> >
> > Markup ('txt2tags_h2','<txt2tags_h1'    , '/( *)==[^=](.*?)[^=]==/',
> > "!!$2");
> > to
> > Markup ('txt2tags_h2','<txt2tags_h1'    , '/^( *)==[^=](.*?)[^=]==/',
> > "!!$2");
> >
> > So I removed the faulty syntax.
>
> My guess is that the !! markup txt2tags inserts can confuse pagetoc's code
> for keeping track of headings. The txt2tags recipe may need to work its
> magic before pagetoc processes the (:toc:) directive.
>
> > It could be cool to get 4 levels of TOC, though.
> >
> At the time, we could not see a way to go reliably and easily beyond 2
> levels. We concluded that to do this required a re-write of the toc
> processing code (which is ugly). This looked hard and would take more time
> than we felt was warranted.
>
> If there is enough interest, it may be worth another look.
>
> JR
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