Re: Generating a Table Of Contents...

On Thursday 03 April 2008 4:22:03 pm [email protected] wrote:
> I just recently switched over from Mozilla to Quanta Plus and I was
> wondering whether Quanta Plus (on Linux) can generate a Table Of Contents
> (based on headings).
>
I wonder how many ways that could be done? Top of a long page, tacky and oh so 
90s. Left nav panel, better, but also sort of old school. Site map... I think 
there are scripts for that.

What Quanta does very well is the foundational things you need... versitile 
markup, DTD reading on the fly for auto completion, CSS support, XML, etc... 
What it doesn't do is have a lot of flashy add ons that stuff you in it's own 
little box. Not that I wouldn't like to have some, and we do have KStuff for 
sharing globally. However most people look at grand ideas in software when 
they are getting aquainted and afterward try to do everything as much like 
they did before as possible... negating most of the benefits of the new 
package experience until they crop up again.

Any script that can create a TOC can be run inside the editor as an action. 
See the docs and look on the configuration menu for Actions. This is very 
powerful and can replace your file, insert into it or create other files. 
Look at project actions and you will see that you can do things like calling 
Actions on events, like running the script after you save a file, or before 
you upload it.

If you have PHP running on your system it's also not difficult to extract 
headings with simplexml. Additionally you can easily review document 
structure with the structure view and create visual dialogs with point and 
click using Kommander.

If I were you I would google for an HTML TOC script, in fact you may well find 
the function you used previously was a script, and try it out. Find one you 
like and make an Action and put it on the toolbar.

-- 
Eric Laffoon
Project Lead - kdewebdev module