Hi all
I am trying to manually add table of contents to some of my posts. Hugo has a variable named .TableOfContents as seen here. Obviously I cannot directly use {{ .TableOfContents }} in markdown so I created a shortcode.
Let’s call it toc.html and it’s pretty simple:
{{ .TableOfContents }}
We get this error:
ERROR: 2016/03/27 error processing shortcode shortcodes/toc.html
ERR: template: shortcodes/toc.html:6:3: executing "shortcodes/toc.html" at <.TableOfContents>:
TableOfContents is not a field of struct type *hugolib.ShortcodeWithPage
Ok, so we switch the template to:
{{ .Page.TableOfContents }}
No errors but no toc.
From my searches around the forum, it seems like a chicken and egg problem. The toc is generated from BlackFriday, so it is most probably empty before the markdown is completely processed.
I can easily use it in the template by adding {{ .TableOfContents }} and it correctly generates a toc. I just take the HTML and manually paste it in the page and remove the code in template and regenerate.
Another thing that comes into my mind is to add a new page parameter to the frontmatter named toc and then check it in the template and if it exists create a toc. However, the toc will be added before the {{ .Content }} and I want it just right after the <!--more--> tag like this post.
Am I missing something? Is there a much simpler way of doing this or ?
Thanks