[About a two-pass run of groff to produce a TOC at any location within
a document]
> I can certainly see the advantages of this approach -- it does
> however place an additional burden on either the document author, or
> the author of some additional macro package, to manage the details.
Which one, except running groff two or three times?
> I can equally see merit in the approach I proposed, assuming that
> the required internal modifications to groff to provide the
> collating mark capability wouldn't be too onerous, (and I don't
> believe that they would be).
Of course there are merits, but, for example, how would you handle
mini-TOCs, each at the beginning of a chapter? If you proposed
solution is flexible enough to manage such situations, then it might
be worth a try.
Werner
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