OK, I saw your other email about more ToC changes coming.  I think I am
going to try to generate the ToC.

-Alex

On 1/25/18, 6:32 PM, "Alex Harui" <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 1/25/18, 4:11 PM, "Andrew Wetmore" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Hi:
>>
>>I have not been touching the ToC file because it looks very easy to get
>>wrong. 
>
>Yeah, I was fiddling with the ToC and thinking the same thing.  I'm
>wondering how many more changes to the ToC we'll be doing.  If it is just
>a few more to implement your proposed ToC, we could just keep the current
>way and fix the small things as we find it.  If we think we're going to be
>adding new entries and/or renaming entries, maybe it is worth it for me to
>try to spend a day making the ToC "generate" from the .MD files.  We would
>probably dictate the organization of the ToC in a JSON file, but the
>entries would be less error prone.  Maybe like:
>
>{ "toc": [ "index.md" : [ "welcome/high-level-view.md" : [] ,
>                          "welcome/features-and-concepts.md": [
>"welcome/features/as3.md" ...
>           "get-started.md" : ["get-started/system-requirements.md" ...
>
>Essentially, a hierarchical object that just lists the file names in the
>order you want them to appear in the ToC.  I think I can get Jekyll to
>generate the ToC by using the page titles.
>
>
>
>>I have also not been inserting links from one .md page to another
>>because I am not clear whether we are using relative or absolute links
>>(not
>>sure, for instance, whether there is a performance benefit of one over
>>the
>>other...).
>
>In the .md files, links have to be a full path without the leading slash.
>So to link to /welcome/features/as3.md, you would use
>
>  [as3](welcome/features/as3.html)
>
>>
>>Also, when we link out from the help docs to another section of the
>>Royale
>>site, or any other resource, we should pop a new browser window, not take
>>the reader away from the help docs. Is there a standard way to declare
>>that
>>when writing a link in markdown? Is it the same as in HTML
>>("target=_blank")?
>
>I had to look it up.  The syntax is:
>
>>[as3](welcome/features/as3.html){:target='_blank'}
>
>I just modified index.md and tested it and it seemed to work.
>
>-Alex
>

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