Dumber

dumber, a (not so dumb) command line tool for d(igital n)umber(ing) Markdown document sections and creation of table(s) of contents accordingly.

With dumber (you already use git, don't you?) you can add or remove to your Mardown files:

• section numbers to header sections. This works on hash sign only. <H1> (#) stays unnumbered as the main title. Use -a for numbering all section tags.
• a table of contents with links on entries.

See an example.

N.B. : The table of contents generation is not tested nor implemented for UTF8 yet.

1. Installation

make install

2. Optional test suite

Rebuild and install a brand new dumber and run a small test suite.

make test

3. Usage

3.1. Command line options

user@machine $ dumber -h
Usage: dumber [OPTION] FILE

  -a	Numbering all sections from the main document title (H1)
  -h	Show help
  -r	Remove table of contents and section numbers from the .md file
  -v	Show version
  -w	Write section numbers to the .md file (default to stdout)

3.2. Add table(s) of contents

To add a table of contents you have to add a line with the HTML comment <!-- Toc --!>, where you want a table of contents to appear:

<!-- ToC -->

The table of contents will be written just after the HTML comment line, and you can add this comment line as many times as you want, if you are, like me, a big fan of tables of contents, or if the length of your document needs a second table of contents at its end.