Re: Enh. Req: Option to have Table of Contents Tool Create Numeric Id's

In an attempt at user friendliness and configurability, why not offer

an option to allow the user to set the root term with numbering to start

at 0 rather than a blank --- and a default of step|id|amaya|whatever

that way the user could set a root that is meaningful and non-conflicting to other ids

for example jwr0, jwr1, jwr2, for my own johns wonderful ritings haha

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In a document that looks like this:

<h1>Main Title</h1>

<h2>Step 1</h2>

<h2>Step 2</h2>

<h2>Step 3</h2>

after generating a Table of Contents the headings are assigned id's that

look like this.

<h1>Main Title</h1>

<h2 id="Step">Step 1</h2>

<h2 id="Step1">Step 2</h2>

<h2 id="Step2">Step 3</h2>

Not only is it confusing to have a document where "Step2" identifies a

section labeled "Step 3" but things get worse when the section headings

change. E.g.

<h1>Main Title</h1>

<h2 id="Step">Task 440</h2>

<h2 id="Step1">Task 450</h2>

<h2 id="Step2">Task 470</h2>

Now we have "Step" identifying headings that do not even use the term

"Step".

It would be nice if the Table of Contents tool could assign unique,

non-intelligent id's like "id-1", "id-2", "id-3" to headings. Mozilla based

editors already take this approach by creating id's of the form

"mozTocId260519".

Thx.

(tested on Amaya 11.2)

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John Russell, [email protected]

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