On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 04:08:50PM +0100, Keith MARSHALL wrote: > >> since a diversion isn't paginated until it is flushed out, > >> how would we capture TOC entries, with proper page number > >> references, while collecting the main body diversion? > > > > Simple: you create a temporary page diversion for collecting > > text. When that is full, you increment your own page counter, > > divert-append the page diversion to the body diversion, clear > > the page diversion, and continue collecting more text in the > > page diversion... > > Ok. I think I get the idea. Presumably you would use a diversion > trap at the physical page length, less the header an footer margins, > to detect when the page diversion is full? But would that not get > horribly complicated, when considering the effect of footnote > diversions and other types of keep.
Can a diversion be spit out and fed to another one? I understand the current issues being discussed and agree they are issues. But I also understand that roff doesn't do widow/orphan processing and the obvious (?) way to do that would be with diversions. Or so I think. But you'd need to layer them. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
