Re: Limit Heading Numbering Depth (Feature Wish)

[Matthew Pickering <matthewtpickering-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

This is very easy to achieve with a filter.

https://gist.github.com/mpickering/ffa67748a9ca7a2ac7c8

usage

pandoc -f markdown -t .... --filter=scrub.hs



On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Tim Hill <drtimhill-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I would love to see a command line switch "--numbering-depth" in Pandoc that
> works in a similar manner to "--toc-depth" but for section numbering.
>
> Rationale: We create documents with four levels of heading (H1 to H4 in HTML
> parlance), but only with H1 and H2 to be numbered (H3 is used for API names
> and H4 for paragraph headings). At present, we can do this by marking the
> H3/H4 headings as unnumbered, something like:
>
> ### Some Heading {-}
>
> It works well, BUT I have a couple of issues with this. First, I can't tell
> you how often our documentation guys forget to add that "{-}" tag. Second, I
> don't like the idea of decorating a markdown file with something that really
> feels more to me like output policy.
>
> So my wish is that I can use something like "--number-sections
> --numbering-depth 2" to limit section numbering to H1/H2 only.
>
> I *suspect* there might be a way to do this already, but I've poked at style
> sheets and various options and haven't found anything except the "{-}" tags.
>
> Good/bad idea?
> --Tim
>
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