list of tables, list of figures and list of abbreviations in quarto book

[zawkzaw]

Bug description

Hello!

I can't find functions for automating list of tables, list of figures and list of abbreviations in quarto book. These functionalities would be very useful for technical and academic reports.

Best

Ko Ko Zaw

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[jpmorr]

I think these functions already exist, at least in the book format. The table of contents is created by default in the html output (I'm not sure about tables and figures for the html) and to generate them in a pdf, you can just add the following options to the _quarto.yml file for the book.

format:
  html:
    theme: cosmo
  pdf: 
    documentclass: scrbook
    number-sections: true
    lof: true
    lot: true
    toc: true 

List of abbreviations is not available as far as I'm aware.

[jav-ed]

This option is only possible for the pdf version? Is it also possible to have a single html page, where the toc, lot and loc are written with its proper linking?

[dragonstyle]

Yes, these options are currently only supported for PDF output at this time.

[jav-ed]

I tried to implement the toc, lof, and lot myself. However, I am struggling with it. So, I found this method: table_of_contents in https://pandoc.org/lua-filters.html#pandoc-module. Unfortunately, I does not work. Have you planned to offer these capabilities for the HTML output?

[tobydriscoll]

I'm interested in this capability as well for figures, tables, examples, etc.--anything cross-referenced.

I ended up using (see example) the custom listing capability to make it easier and more useful, but it still required plenty of manual work, and it requires quasi-manual maintenance as well.

I'm willing to help, if someone can point me in the right direction. I don't know pandoc or Lua at all, unfortunately.