Extract toc from org file

Extract toc from org file

[reza]

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Hi list

Is there a way to extract a toc from an org file e.g:

     #+INCLUDE: myfile.org :toc only

I want to assemble the toc's from several files into one file and there 
seems to be no easy way to do this.

Best,
Reza

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Re: Extract toc from org file

[Max Nikulin]

On 26/09/2022 18:53, reza wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to extract a toc from an org file e.g:
> 
>       #+INCLUDE: myfile.org :toc only
> 
> I want to assemble the toc's from several files into one file and there
> seems to be no easy way to do this.

Likely `org-element-map' allows to extract headings. There are should be 
some example in the mail list archive and at worg (hacks, perhaps in FAQ).

Re: Extract toc from org file

[Max Nikulin]

On 26/09/2022 22:21, Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 26/09/2022 18:53, reza wrote:
>>
>> Is there a way to extract a toc from an org file e.g:
>>
>>       #+INCLUDE: myfile.org :toc only
>>
>> I want to assemble the toc's from several files into one file and there
>> seems to be no easy way to do this.
> 
> Likely `org-element-map' allows to extract headings. There are should be 
> some example in the mail list archive and at worg (hacks, perhaps in FAQ).

See also info "(org) Using the Mapping API"
https://orgmode.org/manual/Using-the-Mapping-API.html
for `org-map-entries'.

Re: Extract toc from org file

[reza]

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>> Likely `org-element-map' allows to extract headings. There are should 
>> be some example in the mail list archive and at worg (hacks, perhaps 
>> in FAQ).
> 
> See also info "(org) Using the Mapping API"
> https://orgmode.org/manual/Using-the-Mapping-API.html
> for `org-map-entries'.

Thanks for the suggestion, but these look like really low level 
functions which involve a lot of coding. Will try if I can figure out 
something.

Best,
Reza

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Re: Extract toc from org file

[Juan Manuel Macías]

reza writes:

> Is there a way to extract a toc from an org file e.g:
>
>      #+INCLUDE: myfile.org :toc only
>
> I want to assemble the toc's from several files into one file and there
> seems to be no easy way to do this.

Maybe the org-make-toc package can help you with what you're looking for:

https://github.com/alphapapa/org-make-toc

You can choose a heading on every document to contain a TOC. And then link each heading via org-transclusion:

https://github.com/nobiot/org-transclusion

Best regards,

Juan Manuel

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Re: Extract toc from org file

[reza]

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> Maybe the org-make-toc package can help you with what you're looking for:
> 
> https://github.com/alphapapa/org-make-toc
> 
> You can choose a heading on every document to contain a TOC. And then link each heading via org-transclusion:
> 
> https://github.com/nobiot/org-transclusion

Thanks for the suggestion, will try it out, but looks like a lot of 
manual bookkeeping is involved.


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Re: Extract toc from org file

[Ihor Radchenko]

reza <reza@housseini.me> writes:

> Hi list
>
> Is there a way to extract a toc from an org file e.g:
>
>      #+INCLUDE: myfile.org :toc only
>
> I want to assemble the toc's from several files into one file and there 
> seems to be no easy way to do this.

I presume that you are attempting to export multiple org files at the
same time.

Such functionality is covered by Org publish.
Org publish allows generating a sitemap, which is another word for TOC
in a multifile export. See 14.1.7 Generating a sitemap section of Org
manual.

If you are exporting a single Org file that is using contents of
multiple #+include'd files, you can use the normal TOC generation as
described in 13.3 Table of Contents section of the Org manual.

Hope it helps.

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Re: Extract toc from org file

[reza]

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> I presume that you are attempting to export multiple org files at the
> same time.

Yes.

> Such functionality is covered by Org publish.
> Org publish allows generating a sitemap, which is another word for TOC
> in a multifile export. See 14.1.7 Generating a sitemap section of Org
> manual.

I'm using org publish, but the sitemap does only collect the titles from 
org files but I want the complete toc of each file and as far as I 
undesrand this is not possible with sitemap?

> If you are exporting a single Org file that is using contents of
> multiple #+include'd files, you can use the normal TOC generation as
> described in 13.3 Table of Contents section of the Org manual.

But this forces all the content into a single file, no?

Thanks for the suggestions!


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Re: Extract toc from org file

[Ihor Radchenko]

reza <reza@housseini.me> writes:

> I'm using org publish, but the sitemap does only collect the titles from 
> org files but I want the complete toc of each file and as far as I 
> undesrand this is not possible with sitemap?

You just need a custom :sitemap-function.
The default `org-publish-sitemap-default' flattens the hierarchy.

From the manual:

‘:sitemap-function’
     Plug-in function to use for generation of the sitemap.  It is
     called with two arguments: the title of the site-map and a
     representation of the files and directories involved in the project
     as a nested list, which can further be transformed using
     ‘org-list-to-generic’, ‘org-list-to-subtree’ and alike.  Default
     value generates a plain list of links to all files in the project.

You may create a function similar to `org-publish-sitemap-default' but
using `org-list-to-subtree' instead of `org-list-to-org'

>> If you are exporting a single Org file that is using contents of
>> multiple #+include'd files, you can use the normal TOC generation as
>> described in 13.3 Table of Contents section of the Org manual.
>
> But this forces all the content into a single file, no?

Yes, it will. It is indeed not something you want in your use case.

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Re: Extract toc from org file

[reza]

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> You just need a custom :sitemap-function.
> The default `org-publish-sitemap-default' flattens the hierarchy.
> 
>  From the manual:
> 
> ‘:sitemap-function’
>       Plug-in function to use for generation of the sitemap.  It is
>       called with two arguments: the title of the site-map and a
>       representation of the files and directories involved in the project
>       as a nested list, which can further be transformed using
>       ‘org-list-to-generic’, ‘org-list-to-subtree’ and alike.  Default
>       value generates a plain list of links to all files in the project.
> 
> You may create a function similar to `org-publish-sitemap-default' but

> using `org-list-to-subtree' instead of `org-list-to-org'

Thanks for the pointers, but I can't figure out how to get from there to 
a toc? As I understand, `list' is a list of files from my project and 
`org-list-to-subtree' does add stars to this list. But how do I get all 
sections and subsections from my file to appear here?

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Re: Extract toc from org file

[Ihor Radchenko]

reza <reza@housseini.me> writes:

>> You may create a function similar to `org-publish-sitemap-default' but
>
>> using `org-list-to-subtree' instead of `org-list-to-org'
>
> Thanks for the pointers, but I can't figure out how to get from there to 
> a toc? As I understand, `list' is a list of files from my project and 
> `org-list-to-subtree' does add stars to this list. But how do I get all 
> sections and subsections from my file to appear here?

Hmm. You are right. Currently, only links to files inside published
project are in the sitemap.

Adding TOC cross-links will not be trivial.
One way could be publishing TOC in individual files and later moving
those TOCs into sitemap. But, say, in html the TOC entries are internal
html links... So things are going to be tricky.

Or you may reuse the code for site index (org-publish-collect-index and
org-publish-index-generate-theindex) but to collect your TOC entries.

If you manage to get something useful about this problem, please let us
know. This kind of feature sounds like something we could add to
ox-publish.

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Ihor Radchenko,
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