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+Extract Table of Content
+========================
+
+A Pelican plugin to extract table of contents (ToC) from `article.content` and
+place it in its own `article.toc` variable for use in templates.
+
+Copyright (c) Talha Mansoor
+
+Author          | Talha Mansoor
+----------------|-----
+Author Email    | talha131@gmail.com
+Author Homepage | http://onCrashReboot.com
+Github Account  | https://github.com/talha131
+
+
+Acknowledgement
+---------------
+
+Thanks to [Avaris](https://github.com/avaris) for going out of the way to help
+me fix Unicode issues and doing a thorough code review.
+
+Thanks to [gw0](http://gw.tnode.com/) for adding Pandoc reader support.
+
+
+Why do you need it?
+===================
+
+Pelican can generate ToC of reST and Markdown files, using markup's respective
+directive and extension. Such ToC is generated and placed at the beginning of
+`article.content` like a string. Consequently it can not be placed anywhere
+else on the page (eg. `<nav>` HTML5 tag, in header, or at the end of your
+article's contents).
+
+To solve this problem, this plugin extracts ToC from `article.content` and
+places it in its own `article.toc` variable for use in templates.
+
+
+Requirements
+============
+
+`extract_toc` requires BeautifulSoup.
+
+```bash
+pip install beautifulsoup4
+```
+
+
+How to Use
+==========
+
+This plugin works by extracting the first occurrence of enclosed in:
+
+- `<div class="toc">` for the default Markdown reader
+- `<div class="contents topic">` for the default reStructuredText reader
+- `<nav class="TOC">` for the Pandoc reader
+
+If ToC appears in your article at more than one places, `extract_toc` will
+remove only the first occurrence. You shouldn't probably need to have multiple
+ToC in your article. In case you need to display it multiple times, you can
+print it via your template.
+
+
+Template example
+----------------
+
+Add something like this to your Pelican templates if missing:
+
+```python
+{% if article.toc %}
+    <nav class="toc">
+    {{ article.toc }}
+    </nav>
+{% endif %}
+```
+
+
+reStructuredText reader
+-----------------------
+
+To add a table of contents to your reStructuredText document (`.rst`) you need to add a `.. contents::` directive to its beginning. See the [docutils documentation](http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#table-of-contents) for more details.
+
+```rst
+My super title
+##############
+
+:date: 2010-10-03
+:tags: thats, awesome
+
+.. contents::
+..
+   1  Head 1
+     1.1  Head 2
+   2  Head 3
+   3  head 4
+
+Heading 1
+---------
+
+Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean commodo ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa.
+```
+
+
+Markdown reader
+---------------
+
+To enable table of contents generation for the Markdown reader you need to set `MD_EXTENSIONS = (['toc'])` in your Pelican configuration file.
+
+To add a table of contents to your Markdown document (`.md`) you need to place the `[TOC]` marker to its beginning. See the [Python Markdown documentation](http://pythonhosted.org/Markdown/extensions/toc.html) for more details.
+
+```markdown
+title: My super title
+date: 4-4-2013
+tags: thats, awesome
+
+[TOC]
+
+# Heading 1 #
+
+Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean commodo ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa.
+```
+
+
+Pandoc reader
+-------------
+
+To enable table of contents generation for the Pandoc reader you need to set `PANDOC_ARGS = (['--toc', '--template=pandoc-template-toc'])` in your Pelican configuration file.
+
+Contents of the Pandoc template file `pandoc-template-toc.html5`:
+
+```html
+$if(toc)$
+<nav id="TOC">
+$toc$
+</nav>
+$endif$
+$body$
+```