Use a parameter to hide/unhide cells

[franzhaas]

Dear all,

we try to have a detailed and a less detailed book out of one source. Until now we were able to do this reasonably well by using two toc files, where one included the detailed chapters, and the other did not.

This used to be great, but right now we have details sprinkled all around the general pages. We tried.:

• to use glue to add detail text in the markup part of our book,
• jinja filters with substitutions
• search and replace of custom tags before building.
• multi language but we failed to make headway

What we believe would be the nicest option would be to allow to configure executable book to treat a custom tag either as don't care, or as "hide-cell" respectively "remove_cell". But we didn't find a command line switch for this.

This way we can add/remove stuff on a cell level.

Can anyone give us a recommendation? How do you solve this problem?

Thanks in advance,
Franz