diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 19b23af..dac96b2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ This program is meant to be used as a git submodule of your actual presentation
 
 	$ git submodule add -b release git@path-to-onpoint.git
 
-Make sure to have python3 and pandoc installed.
+Make sure to have python3 and pandoc (the same version for all developers!) installed.
 Next, we can install all requirements:
 
 	$ cd onpoint
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ We recommend you to structure your project directory like this:
 	├── onpoint
 	│   ├── autocompile.sh
 	│   ├── main.py
+	│   ├── ….py
 	│   ├── README.md
 	│   └── requirements.txt
 	├── slides
diff --git a/onpoint.js b/onpoint.js
index 2935247..ce834ed 100644
--- a/onpoint.js
+++ b/onpoint.js
@@ -35,12 +35,15 @@ function goToSlide(index) {
 		currentSlide = index;
 		window.location.href = window.location.href.split('#')[0] + `#slide${index}`;
 
-		let oldActiveTopicLink = topicList.querySelector(`.${activeTopicLinkClass}`);
-		if (oldActiveTopicLink != null) {
-			oldActiveTopicLink.classList.remove(activeTopicLinkClass);
-		}
-		let newActiveTopicLink = topicList.querySelector(`[data-slide="slide${index}"]`);
-		newActiveTopicLink.classList.add(activeTopicLinkClass);
+		let oldActiveTopicLinks = topicList.querySelectorAll(`.${activeTopicLinkClass}`);
+		[...oldActiveTopicLinks].forEach(link => {
+			link.classList.remove(activeTopicLinkClass);
+		});
+
+		let newActiveTopicLinks = topicList.querySelectorAll(`[data-slide*=";slide${index};"]`);
+		[...newActiveTopicLinks].forEach(link => {
+			link.classList.add(activeTopicLinkClass);
+		})
 	}
 }
 
@@ -114,36 +117,184 @@ function showPreviousFragment() {
 	}
 }
 
+/**
+ * Store for the headline nodes of each chapter.
+ */
+class HeadlineStore {
+	constructor() {
+		this.topLevelChildren = [];
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Add a new root node, i.e. the headline of a new chapter.
+	 * @param {Node} node the level-1 headline node
+	 */
+	add(node) {
+		this.topLevelChildren.push(node);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Generate a HTML list of all headline nodes stored in this structure.
+	 */
+	getHTML() {
+		let resultHTML = '<ul>'
+
+		resultHTML += this.topLevelChildren
+			.map(root => root.getHTML())
+			.join('');
+
+		return resultHTML + '</ul>'
+	}
+}
+
+/**
+ * Data structure storing all headlines for the topic list.
+ * Each node knows its parents and children.
+ */
+class Node {
+	constructor(title, level, father, slide) {
+		this.children = [];
+		this.slidesWithSameTitle = [];
+		this.title = title;
+		this.level = level;
+		this.father = father;
+		this.slide = slide;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Return the child that was added last among all childen.
+	 */
+	getLastChild() {
+		return this.children[this.children.length - 1];
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Add a child node to this headline if the title of the new child node is
+	 * different from the title of the node that was added last.
+	 * This way, headlines are not added twice if they appear consecutively.
+	 * @param {Node} node a subtitle node
+	 * @return true, if the node was added, false otherwise
+	 */
+	addChildNode(node) {
+		if (!this.lastChildHasTitle(node.title)) {
+			this.children.push(node);
+			return true;
+		} else {
+			return false;
+		}
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Each headline can have more than one slide related to it.
+	 * Consecutive headlines appear only ones in a dictionary, but they are still
+	 * related to all slides. If there are three slides with title »Example« in a
+	 * row, the node will have slide1 as its child and slide2 and slide3 as
+	 * entries to the slidesWithSameTitle array.
+	 * The goal of this is to ultimately highlight the node in the topic list not
+	 * only when slide1 is active, but also for slide2 and slide3.
+	 * @param {Integer} slide the ID of a related slide
+	 */
+	addSlideWithSameTitle(slide) {
+		this.slidesWithSameTitle.push(slide);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Whether or not this node's last child has the given title.
+	 * @param {String} title the slide's title
+	 */
+	lastChildHasTitle(title) {
+		let len = this.children.length;
+		return len > 0 && this.children[len - 1].title == title;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Generate the HTML anchor content for this node (without any children).
+	 */
+	getLinkHTML() {
+		return `<a data-slide=";slide${this.slide};${
+			// Slide IDs have to be surrounded by »;«, otherwise slide10 and slide100
+			// would both be highlighted when slide10 is active.
+			this.slidesWithSameTitle.map(slide => `slide${slide}`).join(';')
+			};" href="javascript:goToSlide(${this.slide})" class="topic-link">${this.title}</a>`
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Generate a list item for the topic list with a sublist of all child nodes.
+	 */
+	getHTML() {
+		let resultHTML = `<li>${this.getLinkHTML()}`;
+
+		if (this.children.length > 0) {
+			resultHTML +=
+				`<ul>${this.children.map(child => child.getHTML()).join('')}</ul>`
+		}
+
+		return resultHTML + '</li>';
+	}
+}
+
 function getTopicListContent() {
 	let results = [...document.querySelectorAll('h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6')];
-	let resultHtml = `<input type="text" class="${topicListSearchClass}"/><ul>`;
+	let resultHTML = `<input type="text" class="${topicListSearchClass}"/>`;
 	let currentLevel = 1;
 
+	headlineStore = new HeadlineStore();
+	currentNode = null;
+
 	results.forEach(element => {
 		let node = element.nodeName;
 		let level = parseInt(node[node.length - 1]);
+		let title = element.textContent;
 
 		let parentElement = element.parentElement
 		while (parentElement.nodeName.toLowerCase() != 'article') {
 			parentElement = parentElement.parentElement;
 		}
 
-		let parentSlide = parentElement.id;
-		let parentSlideID = parseInt(parentSlide.replace('slide', ''));
-		let linkHtml = `<a data-slide="${parentSlide}" href="javascript:goToSlide(${parentSlideID})" class="topic-link">${element.textContent}</a>`
+		let slide = parseInt(parentElement.id.replace('slide', ''));
 
-		if (level > currentLevel) {
-			resultHtml += `<ul><li>${linkHtml}</li>`;
-			currentLevel = level;
+		if (level == 1) {
+			// first chapter
+			let rootNode = new Node(title, level, null, slide);
+			headlineStore.add(rootNode)
+			currentNode = rootNode;
+		} else if (level > currentLevel) {
+			// one or more levels down
+			let childNode = new Node(title, level, currentNode, slide);
+			if (currentNode.addChildNode(childNode)) {
+				currentNode = childNode;
+			} else {
+				currentNode = currentNode.getLastChild();
+				currentNode.addSlideWithSameTitle(slide)
+			}
+		} else if (level == currentLevel) {
+			// same level
+			let parentNode = currentNode.father;
+			let siblingNode = new Node(title, level, parentNode, slide);
+			if (parentNode.addChildNode(siblingNode)) {
+				currentNode = siblingNode;
+			} else {
+				currentNode = parentNode.getLastChild();
+				currentNode.addSlideWithSameTitle(slide)
+			}
 		} else if (level < currentLevel) {
-			resultHtml += `</ul></li><li>${linkHtml}</li></li>`;
-			currentLevel = level;
-		} else {
-			resultHtml += `<li>${linkHtml}</a>`;
+			// one or more levels up
+			let parentNode = currentNode
+			while (parentNode.level >= level) {
+				parentNode = parentNode.father;
+			}
+			let siblingNode = new Node(title, level, parentNode, slide);
+			if (parentNode.addChildNode(siblingNode)) {
+				currentNode = siblingNode;
+			} else {
+				currentNode = parentNode.getLastChild();
+			}
 		}
-	})
 
-	return resultHtml + '</ul>';
+		currentLevel = level;
+	});
+
+	return resultHTML + headlineStore.getHTML();
 }
 
 function createTopicList() {