Gh-md-toc

Generates a github markdown TOC (table of contents).

1. Features
2. Installation
   1. Using LuaRocks
      1. Error with LPeg
   2. Manual installation
3. Example
   1. Sample format

Features

• Can insert the TOC directly into the file.
• Fully customizable output format.
• Options to rename or ignore titles.
• Can use a command or another server other than the github API to generate the markdown of titles.

Installation

• Lua 5.1 or greater
• Lua-cURLv3 (optional, use curl command when not found)
• argparse
• LPeg

Lua-cURLv3 and curl are required to use the github markdown API and extract title anchor. They are unused with --url-api= (empty url).

Using LuaRocks

(Luarocks can be installed with the package manager on most distributions.)

For luajit, add --lua-version=5.1 with luarocks.

/!\ See next chapter if an error occurs with LPeg.

luarocks install --local https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jonathanpoelen/gh-md-toc/master/gh-md-toc-2.0-1.rockspec

# Or in your local directory

luarocks make --local gh-md-toc-2.0-1.rockspec

If this is not done, configure your environment with eval $(luarock path). You can now run gh-md-toc.

Or you can use gh-md-toc.sh to configure the environment and launch gh-md-toc.

Error with LPeg

On Ubuntu and possibly other distributions, the installation of LPeg fail. If possible, install them from the package manager:

apt install lua-lpeg

Manual installation

lua and lua-lpeg can be installed from the package manager.

argparse is a pure Lua library, just configure LUA_PATH environment variable.

lua-curl is optional, but you will need to have the curl program installed or to use --cmd-api.

On Ubuntu, Lua-cURL may require manipulation because it is incompatible with some versions of libcurl* packages. The following commands should alleviate the problem:

apt install libcurl4-gnutls-dev
ln -s /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/ /tmp/include
luarocks --local install Lua-cURL CURL_DIR=/tmp/

Example

README.md:

# My project

<!-- toc -->
Here will be inserted the table of contents with `--inplace`.
<!-- /toc -->

## First Title

Proin suscipit vestibulum lacinia. Praesent in ultricies nunc.

### First Sub Title

Quisque leo eros, feugiat ut magna a, tristique iaculis ligula.

### Second Sub Title

Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos.

## Second Title

Cras condimentum ultricies vehicula. Integer sed nisi vel metus lobortis scelerisque eu dapibus magna.

Run gh-md-toc --inplace. The README.md file now contains:

1. [First Title](#first-title)
    1. [First Sub Title](#first-sub-title)
    2. [Second Sub Title](#second-sub-title)
2. [Second Title](#second-title)

By default, the titles above TOC are ignored. But you can take all the titles with the parameter --all-titles.

$ gh-md-toc --inplace --all-titles
1. [My project](#my-project)
    1. [First Title](#first-title)
        1. [First Sub Title](#first-sub-title)
        2. [Second Sub Title](#second-sub-title)
    2. [Second Title](#second-title)

Titles without formatting can be displayed with gh-md-toc --url-api= --all-titles.

For for more option: gh-md-toc -h

Sample format

• --format='{?!1:{<26:-:}\n| {^22:=: {title} } |\n{<26:-:}\n:{<25:-:{?!2:{idepth}: } {title} } {-2}}\n'

--------------------------
| ===== My project ===== |
--------------------------

1 First Title ----------- 1.
  First Sub Title ------- 1.1.
  Second Sub Title ------ 1.2.
2 Second Title ---------- 2.

• --format='{?!1:{title}\n{=0:=:{title}}:{?!2:{title}\n{=0:-:{title}}:{+#} {title}}}\n\n'

My project
==========

First Title
-----------

## First Sub Title

## Second Sub Title

Second Title
------------