Book: Difference TOC entries from HTML and PDF/latex

[cycomachead]

Description

I am working on a book, which has ~25 regular chapters, but more than 200 entries in the appendix organized into 10 or sections. Is there a way to essentially have a different tac-depth for the "main" TOC and for the appendix?

On the web, this works out fine, because I can expand/collapse the subsections. However, in the PDF, I'd like to exclude the individual subentries and just have the 10 sections.

My _quarto.yml looks something like this:

chapters:
    - index.qmd
  appendices:
    - appendix/libraries/index.md
    - blocks/index.md
    - part: Motion Blocks
      chapters:
        - blocks/motion/forward.qmd
    - part: Looks Blocks
      chapters:
        - blocks/looks/changeEffect.qmd

It's the individual "chapters" of each part I'd like excluded.

Essentially, the stuff in the red boxes are what I'd like to exclude.

In each file, I define the title as:

# `move steps` {.unnumbered}

.unnumbered is necessary because with 200+ entries, we quickly exceed the lettering scheme. And .unnlisted isn't quite right because I wan't them to appear in the web TOC.

I'm not sure if I should go about trying to modify the tex output, or if it would be best to try to write a lua filter for just the PDF processing?

[mcanouil]

There is no built-in way.
You'll have to come up with a Lua filter with/without LaTeX trick.

Meanwhile, I made a Lua filter extension last week that could help but it's not tested on books.

• https://github.com/mcanouil/quarto-toc-depth

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