On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 07:28:00AM +0000, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> Perhaps an additional auxiliary file will do? All entries in the
> `.toc` file could contain a hook; if this hook is undefined, nothing
> happens. The other file could then properly define the very hook that
> is to be used to insert the necessary data.
It would probably work, but I don't think it is worth the complication.
I have committed changes to add an entry for the table of contents,
but not the short table of contents. (It's probably the former people
want, anyway, and more would clutter the outline. I figured the PDF
outline pane itself in a PDF viewer is about as useful as the short
table of contents, whereas the full table of contents allows people to
browse the contents in a more luxurious allowance of screen space.)
I have tested this with etex, pdftex, luatex and xetex.
The "table of contents" string is also translated in the outline. Depending
on the language and the translation, non-ASCII characters may be used
to display the string (with Polish ("Spis treści"), Hungarian
("Tartalomjegyzék") and Finnish ("Sisällysluettelo")) as I have recently
made changes to use UTF-16 (an encoding used by the PDF format for some
strings) in PDF outlines if required. (The PDF outlines only contain
the Unicode characters if UTF-8 was used in the Texinfo source for the
characters, and not compositions with TeX accents.)
Please let me know if it works okay.
