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Re: [O] different toc levels per headline?
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Carsten Dominik |
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Re: [O] different toc levels per headline? |
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Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:24:40 +0200 |
On 26.9.2013, at 14:16, Adam Spiers <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Carsten,
>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 01:15:56PM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>> EXPORT_OPTIONS are for the special case that you only export that
>> specific subtree, by restricting the export to a tree using C-s in
>> the dispatcher. They do not modify the behavior of a tree in a
>> larger export of the document, and they also should not do so IMO.
>
> Thanks a lot for the reply. However, what you say seems to directly
> contradict this sentence in the manual:
>
> Options set at a specific level override options set at a more
> general level.
>
> which is why this confused me. I guess that sentence was intended to
> refer only to subtree exports, not whole document exports, but that
> meaning was not clear to me.
I think it means this in general, but I also think that toc creation
is done at a global level, and not recursive in the tree. Maybe Nicolas
has an authoritative answer on this one.
- Carsten
> Perhaps it can be clarified via a small
> tweak?
>
>> Generating a single document should follow one set of rules, not
>> many.
>
> I agree that KISS is valuable when designing the rules. However, it
> also seems a perfectly reasonable requirement to be able to control
> the toc: level per subtree during a whole document export, since in an
> arbitrary document there's no guarantee that every headline has the
> same depth. E.g. one chapter may have a few deep subsections, whereas
> another may contain lots of shallow subsections. In these scenarios
> it is clearly beneficial to allow the author to choose which
> subsections appear in the ToC.
>
> So is there a way of achieving this? If not, please consider this a
> feature request ;-)
>
> Thanks!
> Adam
>
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