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

[Carsten Dominik]

On Apr 27, 2010, at 6:59 PM, David Maus wrote:

> At Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:55:44 +0200,
> Carsten Dominik wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Yes, the prospected exporter to atom uses body only to create html
> markup for a atom feed entry where it normally makes no sense to
> publish a table of contents.  Same is true for org-mime and the "Send
> html messages with Wanderlust" hack.

I think we should keep it the way it is, and Jan, maybe you can just  
strip the surrounding stuff yourself, using a hook.

best wishes

- Carsten

> So maybe create a body without toc when body-only is set to t and
> create a body with toc when body-only is the symbol 'include-toc.
>
> HTH
> -- David
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- Carsten