Hi Luis, On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 3:49 AM, Luis Anaya <papoan...@hotmail.com> wrote: > suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com> writes: > > Hi Sevayu! > >> >> have the content pages at the end instead of the front. Is there any >> particular reason for that? > > Yes there is a reason. > > The MM implementation of table of contents collects all the headers and > captions that have read up to the point of execution of the table of > content command. > > If you want to collect all the headers, the table of content command > must be placed at the end. The idea was that you placed those pages in > the right order before "shipping" the document after printing. Now in > the day of PDF files, it may look weird to have it there but being > that the implementation of the macro has not changed, it still needs > to be the last command in the document.
Ah, so it's a legacy reason. It is always great to learn about history. :) Maybe this information would be worth mentioning in the future documentation for the groff exporter. Thanks, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.
