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I have the following markdown document

Heading-a
==========

---text---

Heading-b
------------

--- text ---

Heading-c
----------

--- text---

Heading-d
=======

--- text----

Heading-e
---

...

I did not find a tool which makes me a click-able table of contents similarly as LaTex does.

This suggests me that we should build one. The tool should collect 'H1' headings and 'H2' headings such that it assigns the number 1 to Heading-a and the number 1.1. to Heading-b, 1.2. to Heading-c, 2. to Heading-d, 2.1. to Heading-e and so on.

We should get the following Table of contens

  1. Heading-a
  1.1. Heading-b
  1.2. Heading-c
  2. Heading-d
  2.1. Heading-e

How can you make such a table of contents by Python/AWK/SED?

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Why don't you just use LaTeX? – jtbandes Jul 25 '09 at 21:25
Thank you for your answers! – Masi Jul 26 '09 at 5:10
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@jtbandes: The syntax of Markdown is easier to read, faster to type and easier to compile than that of LaTex. – Masi Jul 26 '09 at 5:11
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The Markdown in Python implementation has support for extensions one of which includes Table of Contents generation. Additionally Pandoc (which is a Haskell markup->PDF has support for markdown (in addition to a bunch of other formats) and can output pretty HTML, LaTeX, PDFs, etc.

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Your answer raised another problem in installing the extensions at the thread superuser.com/questions/13075/… – Masi Jul 26 '09 at 5:10
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See this article for a comparison of lightweight markup languages with some information on tables of contents that might lead you in the direction of a solution.

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The link is not working. – Masi Jul 26 '09 at 4:23
The link works for me. – Dennis Williamson Jul 26 '09 at 8:44
It seems to be the case that the original author has just removed the blog post such that you have the article in your cache. – Masi Jul 26 '09 at 12:47
The article can be found at Google's cache: site:alexandrenotebook.blogspot.com/2008/01/… – Masi Jul 26 '09 at 12:48
@Dennis: Please, see the following thread where I try to understand why the initial link does not work superuser.com/questions/13154/… – Masi Jul 26 '09 at 13:08
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