Restore implicit section titles?

[johnkerl]

Hi -- I did a bit of development using 0.3.114, then recently with @cderv 's great help got CI rendering working where in CI the Quarto version is 0.9.105.

I noticed a feature downgrade -- before, I had my _quarto.yml like this:

...

  sidebar:
    - id: what-does-this-do
      title: "What does this do?"
      style: "floating"
      collapse-level: 2
      align: left
      contents:
        - href: "index.md"

        - section:
          href: "cloning/overview.md"
          contents:
            - href: "cloning/code-and-docs.md"
            - href: "cloning/things-to-change.md"

        - href: "installing/overview.md"
...

The essential point for this discussion being is that all pages have titles as # lines in their .md files, so it's a wonderful thing that I can use href: with an .md file and pick up the page title which already exists in the .md file without having to do "double entry". This works (rather, worked) for sections as well as contents.

However, using 0.9.105, I found I get an error unless I do this:

...

  sidebar:
    - id: what-does-this-do
      title: "What does this do?"
      style: "floating"
      collapse-level: 2
      align: left
      contents:
        - href: "index.md"

        - section: "Cloning this repository" # <----------------- need to "double enter" page title from the .md file
          href: "cloning/overview.md"
          contents:
            - href: "cloning/code-and-docs.md"
            - href: "cloning/things-to-change.md"

        - href: "installing/overview.md"
...

It turns out implicit naming is no longer allowed. (Or, if allowed, maybe supported in a different way now that I don't understand --- ?)

This is a minor nuisance for trivial-sized repos but it's a bit more of a challenge for larger ones -- we have some significant-sized legacy doc repos to import from another tool (many hundreds of .md files with tens of thousands of lines of Markdown code) -- in my import experiments using 0.3.114 it was wonderful being able to bring in legacy .md files, morph the old tool's index file into a _quarto.yml, and have a working docsite. Using 0.9.105 it will take more scripting to extract section-page titles out of .md files to "double-enter" them into _quarto.yml.

Is there a chance we can get bare section: back? Or, is there a new way to get the same result that I just don't know about?

[jjallaire]

This definitely should work (we didn't disable the behavior on purpose). @dragonstyle Could you take a look at this one?

[dragonstyle]

OK, I've fixed this here: c81d3bb - the issue was just a little overzealous validation of the sidebar schema. A fresh release is being crafted right now!