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 > 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, 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 >>>> 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 >>>>>> 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 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>>> Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. >>>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>>>> send an email to pandoc-discus...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org >>>>>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/264eeee0-68c8-4389-a5c5-12563c6926f6n%40googlegroups.com >>>>>>> >>>>>>> . >>>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to pandoc-discus...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org >>>>> >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/cb3753d7-e845-4a72-a1aa-e93086a32f11n%40googlegroups.com >>>>> >>>>> . >>>>> >>>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to pandoc-discus...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/1ef6858a-0a37-4f5f-a88b-eff2479a8130n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> . >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. 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