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

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

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