On Thursday 26 June 2008 19:49:48 Louis Guillaume wrote: > > To avoid this, you should add the `--no-toc-relocation' option... > > > > $ pdfroff -tp -ms -mpdfmark --no-toc --report lipsum.ms > a.pdf > > Thank you, Keith; that does help. However I decided: "Why not throw > the Table of Contents markups and a .TC macro in there and see what > happens?" The result is the same doubled-up output, only with the > table of contents.
Indeed, this is what will happen, if you use the above invocation. > Perhaps I'm missing something else. Should I post my markup? No thanks, there is no need for that. This behaviour is expected; notice this snippet, from my previous post:-- > > IIRC, the spdf macro package redefines the .TC macro, adding some > > voodoo to suppress TOC output in the first pass, and body text in > > the second, but if you don't use this macro, you get the full > > body text in both passes, hence the doubled output you are seeing. The invocation above is ok when you are *not* relying on traditional ms .XS/.XA/.XE/.TC processing to generate a table of contents. When you *do* use this, then you also *must* use the magic of spdf.tmac's redefined .TC macro, to suppress the repeated output, so the correct form of invocation becomes:-- $ pdfroff -tp -mspdf --report lipsum.ms > a.pdf (Note that `-mspdf' is equivalent to `-ms -mpdfmark', and a bit more). Regards, Keith.
