doctools::toc::export::doctoc(n) ______________________________________________________________________________
NAME
doctools::toc::export::doctoc - doctoc export plugin
SYNOPSIS
package require Tcl 8.4
package require doctools::toc::export::doctoc ?0.1?
export serial configuration
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DESCRIPTION
This package implements the doctools table of contents export plugin
for the generation of doctoc markup.
This is an internal package of doctools, for use by the higher level
management packages handling tables of contents, especially doc-
tools::toc::export, the export manager.
Using it from a regular interpreter is possible, however only with con-
tortions, and is not recommended. The proper way to use this function-
ality is through the package doctools::toc::export and the export man-
ager objects it provides.
API
The API provided by this package satisfies the specification of the
doctoc export plugin API version 2.
export serial configuration
This command takes the canonical serialization of a table of
contents, as specified in section ToC serialization format, and
contained in serial, the configuration, a dictionary, and gener-
ates doctoc markup encoding the table. The created string is
then returned as the result of the command.
[DOCTOC] NOTATION OF TABLES OF CONTENTS
The doctoc format for tables of contents, also called the doctoc markup
language, is too large to be covered in single section. The interested
reader should start with the document
[1] doctoc language introduction
and then proceed from there to the formal specifications, i.e. the doc-
uments
[1] doctoc language syntax and
[2] doctoc language command reference.
to get a thorough understanding of the language.
CONFIGURATION
The doctoc export plugin recognizes the following configuration vari-
ables and changes its behaviour as they specify.
string user
This standard configuration variable contains the name of the
user running the process which invoked the export plugin. The
plugin puts this information into the provenance comment at the
beginning of the generated document.
string file
This standard configuration variable contains the name of the
file the table of contents came from. This variable may not be
set or contain the empty string. The plugin puts this informa-
tion, if defined, i.e. set and not the empty string, into the
provenance comment at the beginning of the generated document.
boolean newlines
If this flag is set the plugin will break the generated doctoc
code across lines, with each markup command on a separate line.
If this flag is not set (the default), the whole document will
be written on a single line, with minimum spacing between all
elements.
boolean indented
If this flag is set the plugin will indent the markup commands
according to the structure of tables of contents. To make this
work this also implies that newlines is set. This effect is
independent of the value for aligned however.
If this flag is not set (the default), the output is formatted
as per the value of newlines, and no indenting is done.
boolean aligned
If this flag is set the generator ensures that the arguments for
the item commands in a division are aligned vertically for a
nice table effect. To make this work this also implies that new-
lines is set. This effect is independent of the value for
indented however.
If this flag is not set (the default), the output is formatted
as per the values of newlines and indented, and no alignment is
done.
Note that this plugin ignores the standard configuration variables for-
mat, and map, and their values.
TOC SERIALIZATION FORMAT
Here we specify the format used by the doctools v2 packages to serial-
ize tables of contents as immutable values for transport, comparison,
etc.
We distinguish between regular and canonical serializations. While a
table of contents may have more than one regular serialization only
exactly one of them will be canonical.
regular serialization
[1] The serialization of any table of contents is a nested
Tcl dictionary.
[2] This dictionary holds a single key, doctools::toc, and
its value. This value holds the contents of the table of
contents.
[3] The contents of the table of contents are a Tcl dictio-
nary holding the title of the table of contents, a label,
and its elements. The relevant keys and their values are
title The value is a string containing the title of the
table of contents.
label The value is a string containing a label for the
table of contents.
items The value is a Tcl list holding the elements of
the table, in the order they are to be shown.
Each element is a Tcl list holding the type of the
item, and its description, in this order. An
alternative description would be that it is a Tcl
dictionary holding a single key, the item type,
mapped to the item description.
The two legal item types and their descriptions
are
reference
This item describes a single entry in the
table of contents, referencing a single
document. To this end its value is a Tcl
dictionary containing an id for the refer-
enced document, a label, and a longer tex-
tual description which can be associated
with the entry. The relevant keys and
their values are
id The value is a string containing the
id of the document associated with
the entry.
label The value is a string containing a
label for this entry. This string
also identifies the entry, and no
two entries (references and divi-
sions) in the containing list are
allowed to have the same label.
desc The value is a string containing a
longer description for this entry.
division
This item describes a group of entries in
the table of contents, inducing a hierarchy
of entries. To this end its value is a Tcl
dictionary containing a label for the
group, an optional id to a document for the
whole group, and the list of entries in the
group. The relevant keys and their values
are
id The value is a string containing the
id of the document associated with
the whole group. This key is
optional.
label The value is a string containing a
label for the group. This string
also identifies the entry, and no
two entries (references and divi-
sions) in the containing list are
allowed to have the same label.
items The value is a Tcl list holding the
elements of the group, in the order
they are to be shown. This list has
the same structure as the value for
the keyword items used to describe
the whole table of contents, see
above. This closes the recusrive
definition of the structure, with
divisions holding the same type of
elements as the whole table of con-
tents, including other divisions.
canonical serialization
The canonical serialization of a table of contents has the for-
mat as specified in the previous item, and then additionally
satisfies the constraints below, which make it unique among all
the possible serializations of this table of contents.
[1] The keys found in all the nested Tcl dictionaries are
sorted in ascending dictionary order, as generated by
Tcl's builtin command lsort -increasing -dict.
BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK
This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain
bugs and other problems. Please report such in the category doctools
of the Tcllib SF Trackers [http://source-
forge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883]. Please also report any ideas for
enhancements you may have for either package and/or documentation.
KEYWORDS
doctoc, doctools, export, serialization, table of contents, toc
CATEGORY
Text formatter plugin
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2009 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
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