Re: Tables of contents for individual sections wanted -- will donate

[Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>]

"D. C. Toedt" <dc@toedt.com> writes:

> Hi all -- 
>
> BACKGROUND:  I've been using org-mode to develop the Common Draft annotated collection of business contract clauses, in part for the law school course in contract drafting that I
> teach to third-year law students.  I've been posting the collection as a Creative Commons document at http://www.CommonDraft.org, and plan to expand and maintain it.
>
> QUESTION:  I'm currently using a single, multi-level table of contents (TOC) at the beginning of the document.  That ends up being a lot to scroll through to get to the first
> chapter.  I'd like instead to have:
>
>   * a one-level "master" TOC at the beginning of the document, listing and linking to just the articles (in contracts, "articles" are the same as "chapters" in books, that is, the
>     top-level sections); and
>
>   * at the beginning of each article, a TOC listing and linking to the subheadings within that article.
>

It's not a pure org solution, but I'd go this way:

o have each "article" in a separate org file - export each one to HTML
(that can be scripted easily) - you get the article TOCs for free.

o have a separate top-level org (or HTML) file that contains the TOC with
pointers to the "articles". The production of this file can be scripted
as well: get the #+TITLEs of each "article" file and turn them into
links.

The whole thing can be wrapped up in a Makefile to automate the process.

Navigation (prev/next/top) may be a problem but it shouldn't be too hard
either.
-- 
Nick