Re: [Docutils-users] publish_parts and table of contents?

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

On 2017-07-18, Tony Narlock wrote:

> Is there a way to get the equivalent to “.. contents::” from publish_parts?

According to
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/api/publisher.html#publish-parts-details,
no.

> If not, is there any way to get the table of contents programmatically?

This could be done in a wrapper; or a custom writer or front-end.

Places to look include the transforms.parts.Content() and the used HTML
writer.

> If not, is there any reason / issue with it being a feature?

I don't know.

> The practical use is a developer pulling out parts the HTML output would
> like control over the table of contents output.

The simple and secure approach would be CSS styling --- unless the task is
more complicated.

Günter