Re: [Groff] gropdf and pdfroff

[Tadziu Hoffmann]

> > 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," [...]

Not necessarily; see below.

> The only place it can be done properly is in troff macros,
> anywhere else and you lose things like page numbering,
> incremental registers, etc.

Yes.  A further argument why TOC placement should be done
using troff macros instead of an external postprocessor is
that the TOC is not always a separate set of pages, as the
attached example page shows.  This is something which would
be very hard to achieve using a separate tool.

minitoc.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document