[l2h] dynamic sectioning depth?

[Gary Scavone]

Oh, and there's no navigation panel on the sub pages as well.

--gary

On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Gary Scavone wrote:

>>
>>The beginning of my document started with a setting of
>>MAX_SPLIT_DEPTH=4 (in .latex2html-init).
>>
>>After about 6 sections, I then changed it to
>>\HTMLset{MAX_SPLIT_DEPTH}{5}.
>>
>>The _sectioning_ of HTML pages worked correctly.  And the proper links
>>are indicated in the table of child links.  However, the navigation
>>panel didn't include the new, lower-level child pages.  And when I
>>view one of these sub pages, they have a bunch of crud in them such
>>as:
>>
>>#0#
>>
>>#./lezcano.grani.tex# 
>>
>>The #0# happens where there should be a \tableofchildlinks generated.  
>>The #./lezcano.grani.tex# is where an \input{lezcano.grani} occured.  
>>The file does get included, but the page background color doesn't
>>happen and the ##s are undesired.  Actually, I'm not surprised that
>>the background color doesn't get set correctly ... I used to have the
>>same problem when using segmentation.
>>
>>Any way we might fix this behavior?
>>
>>--gary
>>
>>On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Ross Moore wrote:
>>
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm wondering if it is possible to control the sectioning depth
>>>>> dynamically from within a latex document, _without_ using
>>>>> segmentation?
>>>>
>>>>Yes. In priciple this is indeed possible.
>>>>As I haven't had occasion to do this much, I cannot say what
>>>>hidden pitfalls may emerge; e.g. in terms of navigation
>>>>and table-of-contents, etc.
>>>>
>>>>The Perl variable that governs when a section starts a new page
>>>>is  $MAX_SPLIT_DEPTH , which is normally set as a global
>>>>parameter, early in the processing.
>>>>
>>>>However it *is* safe to alter this during the course of the
>>>>main translation, using:
>>>>
>>>>   \HTMLsetenv{MAX_SPLIT_DEPTH}{<num>}
>>>>or as 
>>>>   \HTMLset{MAX_SPLIT_DEPTH}{<num>}
>>>>
>>>>where <num> denotes the shallowest sectioning level that is
>>>>*not* to start a new HTML page.
>>>>See the LaTeX2HTML manual for the integer values of <num>.
>>>>
>>>>The new value will be effective from the *next* sectioning
>>>>command, and should stay in effect until the end of the
>>>>document, or until altered again.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Experiment with it, show examples on this list,
>>>>and report any problems that you may find.
>>>>
>>>>It may be worth defining some commands in  html.sty
>>>>to make using this technique easier.
>>>>However I would not wish to do this until the problems
>>>>have been adequately resrearch and suitable fixes found.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>All the best,
>>>>
>>>>	Ross Moore
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 
>>>>> -------------------------------------------------
>>>>> Gary Scavone
>>>>> Center for Computer Research in Music & Acoustics
>>>>> Stanford University
>>>>> gary@ccrma.stanford.edu
>>>>> http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~gary/
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