Re: [Groff] gropdf and pdfroff

[Pierre-Jean]

Deri James <address@hidden> wrote:

> Another good programmer's rule says that the best place to do something is 
> "as 
> soon as you can". Which places it in the domain of the document creator 
> (gropdf). It's not really a radical new feature, more exposing an api to add 
> pages in a non-linear fashion.
>

Hello alls,

My user opinion is that letting a postprocessor change the structure of
a document is confusing. I don't like pdfroff for this reason. In my
humble opinion, writing the table of content in the begining of a
document is a job for a troff macro. 

I think that doing like that is doing things "as soon as you can"
and also "doing one thing but doing it well".

Troff has been made for that, why not using it in that case?
This is a real question, and this question is the reason of
my present mail: Is there any reason why troff would not be
able to do that well?

Cheers,

Pierre-Jean.