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This is an attempt to create a TOC template system that is as stripped-down as possible. It is intended to use for very long tables of contents or indexes, to try and keep them under the template expansion limit.

• {{SimpleTOC/s}}
• {{SimpleTOC line}}
• {{SimpleTOC/e}}

How to use

1. Start the TOC with {{SimpleTOC/s}}
2. Each line of the TOC will use {{SimpleTOC line}}, which has two parameters:
   1. the text that goes on the left (i.e. the chapter title)
   2. the text that goes on the right (i.e. the page number)
3. End the TOC with {{SimpleTOC/e}}

For example:

{{SimpleTOC/s}}
{{SimpleTOC line | [[Book Title/Chapter 1|Chapter 1]] | 1 }}
{{SimpleTOC line | [[Book Title/Chapter 2|Chapter 2]] | 11 }}
{{SimpleTOC line | [[Book Title/Chapter 3|Chapter 3]] | 21 }}
{{SimpleTOC line | [[Book Title/Chapter 4|Chapter 4]] | 31 }}
{{SimpleTOC/e}}

This gives the following result:

Chapter 1

1

Chapter 2

11

Chapter 3

21

Chapter 4

31

Styling

This template deliberately avoids parameters for inline CSS (which will make the template too unwieldy for long tables). Instead, use TemplateStyles and Index-specific style sheets to control the layout and appearance of this template.

You can use the parameters cclass and pclass to add a CSS class to the chapter or page fields respectively, that can be targeted by your style sheets.

The following classes are included in this template:

• cclass=stoc-nodots - removes the dot leaders

Note to template editors

You may be tempted to expand this template to support more complex tables of contents. While this is a desirable aim, please ensure that the templates remain as small as possible or else you may break some very long indices that are already using this template.

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