Thread: New ToC filter for "duplicates" (problem case)
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Old 11-03-2018, 12:19 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
This feature refers to auto-generating tocs from contents. This kind of auto generation can never be made bulletproof.
Hi Kovid. The flexibility you had already built into the ToC generation function is really good. Kudos.

There are a number of circumstances where it is necessary to regenerate a ToC. I can see where the issue of duplicates from the ToC generation process could at times be frustrating for less experienced users (moreso using XPath, whereas I don't recall auto-generation from headers producing duplicates).

The change introduced Aug 24 will be quite helpful for those users less familiar with the ToC generation techniques, but if there is no way for a user to switch off that filter then the change can produce unexpected errors and block efforts to produce a correct ToC.

I'll post a list of some books from which examples can be selected, where the question becomes HOW would the ToC generation process be able to re-generate the ToC for those books. The new filter seems to block any efforts.
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