From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Julian Burgos <julian@hafro.is>
Cc: Org Mode Mailing List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: table of contents and numbers
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:30:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13040.1334241028@alphaville> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Julian Burgos <julian@hafro.is> of "Thu\, 12 Apr 2012 10\:00\:39 -0000." <4F86A7C7.60607@hafro.is>
Julian Burgos <julian@hafro.is> wrote:
> Thanks for the answer Nick. So to get a TOC without numbers I would
> need to edit the TEX file directly, right?
>
You could do that, but you could also use John's idea below to add
\addcontentsline after each heading in the org file.
Nick
> On mið 11.apr 2012 19:00, John Hendy wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Nick Dokos<nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
> >> Julian Burgos<julian@hafro.is> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dear list,
> >>>
> >>> My apologies for another very basic question. I'm wondering why I do
> >>> not get a table of contents when exporting the following file as pdf
> >>>
> >>> ---start org file -----------
> >>> #+TITLE: Test
> >>> #+OPTIONS: toc:t num:nil
> >>>
> >>> * Part 1
> >>> Some text
> >>>
> >>> * Part 2
> >>> Some more text
> >>> ---end org file -----------
> >>>
> >>> I do get the TOC when exporting as hmtl, though.
> >>>
> >> I believe it's because of a rather technical latex limitation: latex
> >> writes TOC entries into a .toc file, which is then read back in when the
> >> \tableofcontents macro is expanded. When you specify num:nil asking for
> >> unnumbered sections, the latex exporter produces \section* markers,
> >> instead of the standard \section markers. But when latex processes
> >> those, it does not add anything to the .toc file. If org added a
> >> \tableofcontents, you would get just the title and an empty TOC. In
> >> order to prevent that, the latex exporter requires that both toc and num
> >> be non-nil - see l.1487 ff in lisp/org-latex.el:
> >>
> >> ,----
> >> | ...
> >> | ;; table of contents
> >> | (when (and org-export-with-toc
> >> | (plist-get opt-plist :section-numbers))
> >> | (funcall org-export-latex-format-toc-function
> >> | ...))
> >> `----
> > One can work around this by manually adding sections under each headline.
> >
> > -----
> > #+options: num:nil toc:t
> >
> > #+text: \tableofcontents
> >
> > * Introduction
> > \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Introduction}
> > -----
> >
> > Tedious for long documents, but does work.
> >
> >
> > John
> >
> >> The HTML exporter does this "by hand", so to speak, so it is not as
> >> constrained and can do the "right" thing.
> >>
> >> Nick
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
> --
> Julian Mariano Burgos, PhD
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> Skúlagata 4, 121 Reykjavík, Iceland
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>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-12 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <julian@hafro.is>
2012-04-11 16:13 ` table of contents and numbers Julian Burgos
2012-04-11 17:12 ` Nick Dokos
2012-04-11 19:00 ` John Hendy
2012-04-12 10:00 ` Julian Burgos
2012-04-12 14:30 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2012-04-12 16:52 ` Jonas Hörsch
2012-04-12 16:59 ` Jonas Hörsch
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