Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:

> Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com> wrote:
>
>> Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi,
>> >> 
>> >> I've been using the new html exporter (org-e-html) recently, and I'm
>> >> surprised that it does not add tables of contents by default.  Is there
>> >> a user variable which I can customize to change this default?  Currently
>> >> the only way I see to add a table of contents is to add a TOC keyword to
>> >> the buffer.
>> >> 
>> >
>> > org-export-with-toc perhaps?
>> >
>> > Nick
>> >
>> 
>> Nope,
>> 
>> With this variable set to t the e-html backend does *not* produce a
>> table of contents.  To demonstrate, run the following from the command
>> line with the attached Org-mode file (although any file will do) saved
>> to /tmp/example.org.
>> 
>>     # -*- shell-script -*-
>>     emacs --batch -l path/to/org-mode/lisp/org-element.el \
>>                   -l path/to/org-mode/contrib/lisp/org-export.el \
>>                   -l path/to/org-mode/contrib/lisp/org-e-html.el \
>>                   /tmp/example.org \
>>           --eval '(let ((org-export-with-toc t)) (org-export-to-file (quote e-html) "/tmp/example.html"))'
>
> Try setting it to 4: org-e-html.el says (around line 1475)
>
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>    ;; table of contents
>    (let ((depth (plist-get info :with-toc)))
>      (when (wholenump depth) (org-e-html-toc depth info)))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> even though that contradicts the docstring for the variable.
>

Indeed, setting this variable to 4 does result in TOC generation.

I'd recommend the attached patch.

Thanks,