Re: Observations using utmac

[Johann Höchtl]

On 05.11.20 21:51, Pierre-Jean Fichet wrote:
> Hello Johann,
>
> Johann Höchtl<johann.hoechtl@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Johann Höchtl<johann.hoechtl@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > There's no technical reason. And I guess it's a valuable feature
> > > request
> > I see. I guess the logic is more or less in place as the Sx-macros to
> > their job nicely?
> Yes it is. One easy trick is to override sum:start and sum:stop
> macros, which are defined by us.tmac to format a summary. Like this:
>
> .de sum:star
> .       PP
> ..
> .de sum:stop
> ..
>
> And the formatting of the Sx-macros will be the same as the XT macro.
> Attached is an example.


Well done! I think this makes utmac the only macro set which can place a 
toc at the beginning, doing all the required handling internally without 
tooling and supplemental makefiles / bash-scripts to re-arrange PDFs or 
Postscript pages.

Best, Johann

> Cheers,
> Pierre-Jean.