Re: [Orgmode] Why does org-html.org refuse to export a table of contents when body-only is t?

[Carsten Dominik]

On Apr 18, 2010, at 7:32 PM, Jan Böcker wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to add a table of contents to a HTML export with body-only  
> set
> to t (to feed into jekyll later), but org-html.el automatically  
> disables
> the TOC when body-only is given.
>
> I have used the attached one-line patch without any problems, the  
> (still
> XHTML strict compliant) result can be seen here:
>
> http://www.jboecker.de/2010/04/14/general-reference-filing-with-org-mode.html
>
> gitk tells me that the line I have changed was first introduced in
> Release 4.75, so is this just a use case that was not thought of when
> this was programmed, or is there a specific reason?


The reason for this behavior is that the most frequent
application for this seems to me to convert a small
block to HTML, to paste it somewhere else.

But I have no string reasons to keep it like this.  Do we have more
opinions on this issue?

- Carsten