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Valid for: Silva 1.5+, Silva Custom Auto TOC 1.0+
Author: Andy Altepeter
Email: aaltepet at altepeter dot net

Silva Custom Automatic Table of Contents

This product provides a 'Silva Custom AutoTOC'. Silva's stock
AutoTOC object only displays Content, which can be limiting.
Not all content on the web fit's into Silva's model of content.
If your site is primarily composed of PDFs you have to use Silva
Files, which are assets, to manage your content. But wait! Assets
aren't displayed on AutoTOCs, so you can't use them.

One other negative mark for AutoTOCs is that they don't go the last mile
to make the rendered content accessible, e.g. for someone using a screenreader.
This is because AutoTOCS use images with different widths to visually "indent"
content in containers. A screenreader can't express this "visual" information.

Custom AutoTOC overcomes these two limitations. It gives silva content authors/editors
the ability to choose which silva addables are displayed in the TOC. Care must
be taken though, if container types aren't selected, the TOC will only display
content within it's own container! Custom AutoTOC also allows authors to select
the depth with which to display.\

Custom AutoTOC renders the table of contents as nested lists. This allows
screenreaders to convey the "nested" nature of the lists. This also gives
the content designers the freedom to specify, using css, what types of bullets
to use for any given nesting level, the amount of indentation, and anything else
you can do with css.

The SilvaStylesheets product was also updated to include three Custom AutoTOC
styles. SilvaStylesheets can be downloaded from
http://zope.org/Members/aaltepet/SilvaStylesheets