Re: Multiple HTML file (chunked) output with template

["Luís de Sousa" <luis.a.de.sousa-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Thank you once more for keeping this going. I made some progress but now 
there is an error with html-multi-writer.lua itself (log below). I never 
worked with Lua before, apologies if I am making something dumb.

$ wget 
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wlupton/pandoc-lua-logging/main/logging.lua
--2022-11-10 17:28:08-- 
 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wlupton/pandoc-lua-logging/main/logging.lua
Resolving raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)... 
185.199.111.133, 185.199.108.133, 185.199.110.133, ...
Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com 
(raw.githubusercontent.com)|185.199.111.133|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 8173 (8,0K) [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘logging.lua’

logging.lua             100%[==============================>]   7,98K 
 --.-KB/s    in 0s

2022-11-10 17:28:08 (42,0 MB/s) - ‘logging.lua’ saved [8173/8173]

$ mkdir -p $HOME/.local/share/pandoc/filters
$ mv logging.lua $HOME/.local/share/pandoc/filters
$ export LUA_PATH="$HOME/.local/share/pandoc/filters/?.lua;;"
$ pandoc multi-test.md -t html-multi-writer.lua -o output/multi-test.html
Error running Lua:
html-multi-writer.lua:38: attempt to index a boolean value (local 'utils')
stack traceback:


On Thursday, 10 November 2022 at 13:47:52 UTC+1 wlu...-QSt+ys/nuMyEUIsrzH9SikB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org 
wrote:

> I've updated the gist by adding utils.lua and updating the README. This 
> should be sufficient for the writer to run without error (please let me 
> know if not).
>
> Note that you'll also need to get logging.lua as described, and also note 
> that any generated YAML files will be empty (I didn't want to share my 
> brain-dead YAML writer but there appear to be lua YAML writers out there 
> that might work... anyway you might decide that you don't need the 
> generated YAML... this depends on how you set up the make rules).
>
> I don't really want to create a repo for this (well... a gist _is_ a 
> repo!) because I don't want (at this point) to provide any support for it 
> (questions are OK though). I'm providing the gist just as a demo of the 
> approach. Maybe later...
>
> On Wed, 9 Nov 2022 at 18:28, William Lupton <wlu...-QSt+ys/nuMyEUIsrzH9SikB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org> 
> wrote:
>
>> Oh sorry, yes, utils is one of mine! I'll look into this tomorrow...
>>
>> On Wed, 9 Nov 2022, 16:03 Luís de Sousa, <luis.a....-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you very much for sharing, that looks very promising.
>>>
>>> Pandoc can't run the script though, says it can't find the utils 
>>> package. I installed luarocks and with it lua-utils but the error prevails:
>>>
>>> $ pandoc multi-test.md -t html-multi-writer.lua -o output/multi-test.html
>>> Error running Lua:
>>> html-multi-writer.lua:21: module 'utils' not found:
>>>     no field package.preload['utils']
>>>     no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.4/utils.lua'
>>>     no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.4/utils/init.lua'
>>>     no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.4/utils.lua'
>>>     no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.4/utils/init.lua'
>>>     no file './utils.lua'
>>>     no file './utils/init.lua'
>>>     no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.4/utils.so'
>>>     no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.4/loadall.so'
>>>     no file './utils.so'
>>> stack traceback:
>>>     html-multi-writer.lua:21: in main chunk
>>>
>>> P.S.: would you consider creating a repository for this work? I would 
>>> like to automate the second stage with bash, shouldn't be too hard.
>>>
>>> On Monday, 7 November 2022 at 15:46:58 UTC+1 wlu...-QSt+ys/nuMyEUIsrzH9SikB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've created this gist: 
>>>> https://gist.github.com/wlupton/2fc23fc1c4e4b4899121bfafc0fea4bf
>>>>
>>>> I added a README.md and hope that there's enough info to get going. 
>>>> Please let me know if not.
>>>>
>>>> (Please note that this writer does some other things too, which might 
>>>> need to be stripped out. Also, it's an old-style writer... I haven't got 
>>>> around to updating it yet,)
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 7 Nov 2022 at 09:22, Luís de Sousa <luis.a....-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi there. That is precisely the kind of output I would like to have. 
>>>>> Similar to what tools like mdBook produce. I would be glad if you could 
>>>>> share more details on that custom writer.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you and regards.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Friday, 4 November 2022 at 17:51:24 UTC+1 
>>>>> wlu...-QSt+ys/nuMyEUIsrzH9SikB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> See https://usp.technology/specification for an example of how the 
>>>>>> Broadband Forum has recently been publishing some specs. This output is 
>>>>>> generated via an html-multi-writer.lua custom writer that contains the 
>>>>>> logic for splitting the output into multiple files (based on header level 
>>>>>> and/or specific classes). The writer also takes care of generating the 
>>>>>> navigation bar that you see at the top and bottom of the pages. The 
>>>>>> multiple files are then passed through pandoc again (to add the overall 
>>>>>> sidebar ToC and the top/bottom navigation bars, and to generate multiple 
>>>>>> standalone docs).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please let me know if you'd like more details (the overall setup is 
>>>>>> not very easily shareable, because it's heavily dependent on 
>>>>>> rather complicated make rules, but I could probably share the custom writer 
>>>>>> and give some example command lines.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, 4 Nov 2022 at 12:45, Luís de Sousa <luis.a....-Re5JQEeQqe8@public.gmane.orgm> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am currently working on a long document that must served as a web 
>>>>>>> page. The single file output is becoming too slow and cumbersome for 
>>>>>>> readers. I am aware this functionality is not available, but a Feature 
>>>>>>> Request is open [0]. 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In that issue there are some hints to this issue being addressable 
>>>>>>> with a template [1]. I have tried many HTML templates, but never seen one 
>>>>>>> that would split a long document in a set of small files. Would there be an 
>>>>>>> example somewhere I could follow? Otherwise, could someone provide a 
>>>>>>> general idea of how such template would function?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [0] https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/6122
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [1] https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/6122#issuecomment-583593340
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