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tc2html-toc - table of contents processor for tc2html
tc2html-toc file ...
tc2html is a postprocessor for troffcvt that produces
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). tc2html is capable of
generating a table of contents (TOC). However, since TOC entries
cannot all be known until the entire input document has been read,
tc2html writes the TOC near the end of the HTML document.
To handle this problem, tc2html-toc examines tc2html
output for a table of contents and moves it to the correct location.
tc2html-toc is invoked for your automatically if you use
troff2html (which also invokes tc2html). If you
run tc2html manually, you must also run tc2html-toc
manually.
tc2html and tc2html-toc cooperate by means of the
following conventions. If tc2html writes a TOC, it surrounds
them with the following two HTML comments:
<!-- TOC BEGIN -->
<!-- TOC END -->
If the user wishes to explicitly specify a location for the TOC,
this may be done by invoking the .H*toc*title request
in the document. This request writes a TOC title followed by this
HTML comment:
In addition, macro package redefinitions used with tc2html
can make a guess about where the TOC should be located in the
absence of an explicit location marker. To do so, a redefinition
can write the following advisory marker comment:
<!-- INSERT TOC HERE, MAYBE -->
For example, redefinitions for the -man macros can write
an advisory location for the TOC after the .TH macro invocation
has been seen.
Given these conventions, tc2html-toc reads the input and
examines it for the TOC and TOC location. The input is written
unchanged to the output if no TOC is found. Otherwise, the locations
listed below are used to reposition the TOC (with locations listed
first taking priority):
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*
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The position of the TOC location marker.
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*
-
The position of the advisory TOC location marker.
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*
-
The beginning of the <BODY> part of the document.
troffcvt(1),
tc2html(1), troff2html(1)
Paul DuBois, dubois@primate.wisc.edu.
tc2html-toc exits with an error if it discovers that the
TOC location marker lies within the TOC itself.