Tables of contents

Tables of contents

[Andrew Payne]

Hi.

I'm having immense trouble getting docbook2rtf to correctly fill in
page numbers in TOCENTRYs.

If I run docbook2dvi three times (!) then it usually does fill in the
numbers, but insists on underlining every entry which looks terrible.

docbook2rtf, who's output is generally good, completely refuses to
and shows all page numbers as being '1'.

Does anyone have a reliable way of producing TOCs with these tools?

Here's my SGML snippet.  I tried playing with XREF and LINK to see
if they helped, which they didn't.

<toc>
<tocpart>
	<tocentry linkend='partvisp'></tocentry>
	<tocchap>
		<tocentry linkend='chapvispsystemoverview'></tocentry>
		<toclevel1>
			<tocentry linkend='sectvispoverviewinventory'></tocentry>
		</toclevel1>
	</tocchap>
</tocpart>
<tocpart>
	<tocentry linkend='partinternal'></tocentry>
	<tocchap>
		<tocentry linkend='chapintoverview'></tocentry>
	</tocchap>
	<tocchap>
		<tocentry>
		<xref linkend='chapintfirewall'>
		</tocentry>
	</tocchap>
</tocpart>
</toc>



Andrew.

Tables of contents

[Andrew Payne]

Hi.

I'm having immense trouble getting docbook2rtf to correctly fill in
page numbers in TOCENTRYs.

If I run docbook2dvi three times (!) then it usually does fill in the
numbers, but insists on underlining every entry which looks terrible.

docbook2rtf, who's output is generally good, completely refuses to
and shows all page numbers as being '1'.

Does anyone have a reliable way of producing TOCs with these tools?

Here's my SGML snippet.  I tried playing with XREF and LINK to see
if they helped, which they didn't.

<toc>
<tocpart>
	<tocentry linkend='partvisp'></tocentry>
	<tocchap>
		<tocentry linkend='chapvispsystemoverview'></tocentry>
		<toclevel1>
			<tocentry linkend='sectvispoverviewinventory'></tocentry>
		</toclevel1>
	</tocchap>
</tocpart>
<tocpart>
	<tocentry linkend='partinternal'></tocentry>
	<tocchap>
		<tocentry linkend='chapintoverview'></tocentry>
	</tocchap>
	<tocchap>
		<tocentry>
		<xref linkend='chapintfirewall'>
		</tocentry>
	</tocchap>
</tocpart>
</toc>



Andrew.

Re: Tables of contents

[Norman Walsh]

/ Andrew Payne <andrew@surfnet.demon.co.uk> was heard to say:
| docbook2rtf, who's output is generally good, completely refuses to
| and shows all page numbers as being '1'.
| 
| Does anyone have a reliable way of producing TOCs with these tools?

Most users allow the stylsheets to generate TOCs automatically.
It's possible that there's a bug in manually generated TOCs, but
can you explain why you need or want to generate the TOC manually?

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh <norm@berkshire.net>  | Some people tell you you should
                                   | not drink claret after
                                   | strawberries. They are
                                   | wrong.--William Maginn

Re: Tables of contents

[Norman Walsh]

/ Andrew Payne <andrew@surfnet.demon.co.uk> was heard to say:
| docbook2rtf, who's output is generally good, completely refuses to
| and shows all page numbers as being '1'.
| 
| Does anyone have a reliable way of producing TOCs with these tools?

Most users allow the stylsheets to generate TOCs automatically.
It's possible that there's a bug in manually generated TOCs, but
can you explain why you need or want to generate the TOC manually?

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh <norm@berkshire.net>  | Some people tell you you should
                                   | not drink claret after
                                   | strawberries. They are
                                   | wrong.--William Maginn

Re: Tables of contents

[Andrew Payne]

> Most users allow the stylsheets to generate TOCs automatically.
> It's possible that there's a bug in manually generated TOCs, but
> can you explain why you need or want to generate the TOC manually?

I tried this - and it did the all-pages-are-1 thing - so I tried
doing manual entries to see if anything improved.


Andrew.

Re: Tables of contents

[Andrew Payne]

> Most users allow the stylsheets to generate TOCs automatically.
> It's possible that there's a bug in manually generated TOCs, but
> can you explain why you need or want to generate the TOC manually?

I tried this - and it did the all-pages-are-1 thing - so I tried
doing manual entries to see if anything improved.


Andrew.

Re: Tables of contents

[Norman Walsh]

/ Andrew Payne <andrew@surfnet.demon.co.uk> was heard to say:
| > Most users allow the stylsheets to generate TOCs automatically.
| > It's possible that there's a bug in manually generated TOCs, but
| > can you explain why you need or want to generate the TOC manually?
| 
| I tried this - and it did the all-pages-are-1 thing - so I tried
| doing manual entries to see if anything improved.

In the RTF, you have to load the document in Word or some other program
and ask it to regen the numbers. This is described in the Jade document
at http://www.jclark.com/jade/#backend-rtf , have you tried that?

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | People say law but they mean
http://nwalsh.com/            | wealth.--Emerson

Re: Tables of contents

[Norman Walsh]

/ Andrew Payne <andrew@surfnet.demon.co.uk> was heard to say:
| > Most users allow the stylsheets to generate TOCs automatically.
| > It's possible that there's a bug in manually generated TOCs, but
| > can you explain why you need or want to generate the TOC manually?
| 
| I tried this - and it did the all-pages-are-1 thing - so I tried
| doing manual entries to see if anything improved.

In the RTF, you have to load the document in Word or some other program
and ask it to regen the numbers. This is described in the Jade document
at http://www.jclark.com/jade/#backend-rtf , have you tried that?

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | People say law but they mean
http://nwalsh.com/            | wealth.--Emerson