Re: [Groff] gropdf and pdfroff

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> 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.
> 
> But this would require the somewhat non-standard way of using troff
> in two passes.

Well, I think that multi-pass is the right way to go.  TeX is doing
this since ages, cf. the `texi2dvi' script which handles this
automatically.

Assuming the right macros have been written, it should be fairly
trivial to adapt this script to groff.


    Werner