Re: [Groff] gropdf and pdfroff

[Deri James]

On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 21:21:33 Peter Schaffter wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > Would it be better to leave the re-ordering to external utilities, e.g.
> > the pdftk package
> > 
> >     http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/
> > 
> > on the basis of do one small thing and do it well?
> 
> This is essentially what I concluded when writing the mom macros.
> Better to use psselect (from the psutils suite) to re-order
> TOCs in PostScript documents; for pdf documents, pdftk.  While
> this necessarily requires users to write a pipeline, it's "the
> right tool," and affords greater flexibility with respect to TOC
> placement.  Not all language conventions place the TOC at the
> beginning; I've any number of French works with a Table de matières
> at the back.

Ok. I think everyone's right (Ralph, Jean-Pierre, Peter) except me :-(

The only place it can be done properly is in troff macros, anywhere else and 
you lose things like page numbering, incremental registers, etc.. Still it was 
a nice exercise thinking about how it might be done.

Cheers 

Deri