Re: [groff] Table of content for UTP in groff format

[Deri]

On Thursday, 24 October 2019 16:11:17 BST Andrea D'Amore wrote:
> Hello,
> I got the "UNIX Text Processing" book in groff format, link "groff and
> PostScript files--Beta" at [1] and built the default "utp_book.ps"
> target.
> The resulting PostScript file and its conversion to PDF via ps2pdf
> have no outline.
> 
> I see the Makefile is doing… something to generate the ToC and in fact
> it has toc.t as dependency of utp_book.ps target, this file is not
> used anymore when building utp_book.ps .
> 
> I am very new to groff, I am in the process of reading the groff
> chapter of the book now, can anyone enlighten me about what's
> happening with the ToC there, if it is supposed to be available and
> browseable from PS/PDF viewer or if it is an "incomplete feature" of
> the groff port of the book?
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> [1]: https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/

You can find a pdf version which includes an outline, clickable TOC and index 
here:-

https://github.com/DeriJames/UTP-1.1

Many people on this list did the hard work of preparing the troff source.

Cheers 

Deri