Re: [eLyXer-users] Merge options toc and toctarget

[Alex Fernandez]

Hi again,

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Alex Fernandez <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Jose Ramon Alvarez Sanchez
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> By the way, I'm not sure if it is necessary to have both --toc and
>> --toctarget, because using only --toc produce a toc file of no use
>> with all links pointing to itself, --toctarget is always needed to
>> explicit the name of file to address the links. So probably a merge
>> of --toc and --toctarget is needed. On the other hand the option
>> --target is used to name the "target" option in links anchor tags,
>> so the name --toctarget is a little bit confusing (maybe the merge
>> of --toc and --toctarget could be named --tocto  or --tocfor).
>
> A very good suggestion. We might phase out --toc and --toctarget in
> favor of --tocto. I am adding it to the wish list (maybe not for this
> version, but for the next).

It has been added and tested now. In the end I opted for --tocfor as
it seemed more intuitive than --tocto. You can grab the latest git
sources to try it out.

> By the way, I don't think deprecated options should appear in the
> --help for more than a couple of minor versions, so for 1.2 we may
> stop documenting --nocopy already.

I just added a section "Deprecated options" to the online help and the
user guide.

Let me know how it goes,

Alex.