Feature Request: (Table) Listings for PDF

[SHogenboom]

Background
The listings feature allows one to automatically populate the contents of a page. I expect it was intended for use only in websites, for example an overview of blogposts.

My Modification
I used the meta-data of chapters (title, meta-description) and a listing page to create an informative TOC. So rather than only showing chapter numbers and titles - readers now also see the meta-description as part of a table (without filter, sort etc).

Feature Request
The educational book we are creating should have both a HTML and a PDF version. Unfortunately, the listing page remains empty in the PDF output. I believe the table type should be suited for inclusion in a PDF - which is why I want to request it as a feature.

[grantbruer]

I am also interested in this. I think it could be implemented by defining new latex templates that essentially mimic the ejs templates.

I have an initial implementation that uses a Lua filter and works strictly with a YAML listings source.

For testing feasibility of this, I have the simple latex template below.

\begin{itemize}
$for(entries)$
\item $entries.title$
$endfor$
\end{itemize}

Here is the live site where you can download the pdf and see the lists: https://gbruer-dev.github.io/resume/

The source code is here:

• qmd: https://github.com/gbruer-dev/gbruer-dev.github.io/blob/3f8f3f64e44694638ef578dc4331320ae6fb95cd/src/resume/index.qmd
• filter: https://github.com/gbruer-dev/gbruer-dev.github.io/blob/3f8f3f64e44694638ef578dc4331320ae6fb95cd/src/_extensions/latex_listing/latex_listing.lua

When I have time, I'll keep working on this with the aim of getting a table format working.

[esayre]

Oh yes, me too please!

I make pretty heavy use of listings in an html version: a detailed ToC, and also sub ToCs at the end of each part ("additional resources in these chapters").