Path issues with sub-folders under windows

I am using the latest 0.7.0b2 on Windows 10, with Anaconda Python 3.7.

I am able to create and compile the template project as per the project documentation. However, building fails when I move a file to a subfolder (which I need to do for a much larger document). To reproduce the issue:

• Move contend.md to folder\content.md
• Modify _toc.yml so that the relevant line read - file: folder/content
• Clean, then rebuild the book

The build is successful, but several files are no longer included, with the output given below. It appears to be an issue with relative paths using \\.

I believe that this is due to how jupyter-book converts windows paths before handing on to Sphinx, as I have had no problems running Sphinx with a heavily nested project on this machine.

<project root path>\folder\content.md:7: WARNING: toctree contains reference to nonexisting document 'folder/..\\markdown'                                                                               
<project root path>\folder\content.md:7: WARNING: toctree contains reference to nonexisting document 'folder/..\\notebooks'                                                                              
<project root path>\intro.md:9: WARNING: toctree contains reference to nonexisting document 'folder\\content'                                                                                            
looking for now-outdated files... none found                                                                                   
pickling environment... done                                                                                                   
checking consistency... <project root path>\folder\content.md: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree                                                                                           
<project root path>\markdown.md: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree                                                                                                                         
<project root path>\notebooks.ipynb: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree                                                                                                                     

[phaustin]

definitely get the impression that we’re all unix immigrants here. I’m writing a windows developer guide (4 of our group of 6 on our project are windows users which is why I spent my weekend on windows). for anyone in my situation, my two top tips for conda on windows:

1. install windows terminal from the microsoft store
2. use a powershell profile (not the anaconda shortcut) to start a conda environment with readline editing and environmental variables:

https://github.com/eoas-ubc/eoas_tlef/blob/master/docs/support_files/Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1

[chrisjsewell]

Hey @jlperla, as of v0.11 the ToC handling has now all been moved to https://github.com/executablebooks/sphinx-external-toc, and there is specifically Windows testing there. So I’m hoping this should no longer be an issue.

Perhaps if someone with Windows could re-check this and confirm. Then @choldgraf can update the documentation