TOC in HTML export - how to change formatting of ToDo levels?

TOC in HTML export - how to change formatting of ToDo levels?

[David Rogoff]

Hi all.

I've just started diving back into org-mode.  I'm mostly using it for ToDo / Status tracking.  I've been trying to change the format of the TOC entries with little success.  I've figured out how to use org-export-html-style to change the CSS markup for my customized ToDo levels, but that just affects the formatting in the body of the document.  The table of contents appears to ignore that.  I've been digging through org-html.el and the TOC formatting (around line 1474) looks to be mostly card-coded with almost no variables to control anything.   Any ToDo status of done is not marked up at all and anything else is just marked as class "todo" instead of the actual class of the item.

Am I missing something?  The only solution I've found is to write a script to fix the HTML after exporting.  Any better solution?   It's a very big ToDo list and I (and others who will look at the document) want to see the actual status (preferably with the CSS font/text markups) in the TOC to know which items to look into for further details.

Thanks!

 David

FYI, running emacs 24.3.1 on RHEL 5.3 and org-mode 7.9.3f

Re: TOC in HTML export - how to change formatting of ToDo levels?

[Sebastien Vauban]

Hi David,

David Rogoff wrote:
> I've just started diving back into org-mode. I'm mostly using it for ToDo /
> Status tracking. I've been trying to change the format of the TOC entries with
> little success. I've figured out how to use org-export-html-style to change
> the CSS markup for my customized ToDo levels, but that just affects the
> formatting in the body of the document. The table of contents appears to
> ignore that. I've been digging through org-html.el and the TOC formatting
> (around line 1474) looks to be mostly card-coded with almost no variables to
> control anything. Any ToDo status of done is not marked up at all and anything
> else is just marked as class "todo" instead of the actual class of the item.
>
> Am I missing something? The only solution I've found is to write a script to
> fix the HTML after exporting. Any better solution? It's a very big ToDo list
> and I (and others who will look at the document) want to see the actual status
> (preferably with the CSS font/text markups) in the TOC to know which items to
> look into for further details.

You should be able to customize the todo class only within the TOC context
with such a rule:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
    #table-of-contents .todo {
        ...
    }
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Best regards,
  Seb

-- 
Sebastien Vauban

Re: TOC in HTML export - how to change formatting of ToDo levels?

[David Rogoff]

> You should be able to customize the todo class only within the TOC context
> with such a rule:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>     #table-of-contents .todo {
>         ...
>     }
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> Best regards,
>   Seb


Thanks for the info.  This will help a bit but still doesn't address the TOC code throwing out the actual ToDo states of the headlines and making everything either .todo or .done.

 David