Louis Gillaume wrote: > I'm looking for a way to get my section numbers in the table of > contents. This is with -ms. > > This is what I've been trying: > > .NH 1 > OVERVIEW > .XS > \n[H1] > \.\n[H2]
You would need \&.\n[H1] here, if the intention is to pass the initial dot through as text; (the \& is a non-spacing invisible character, which serves to hide the dot, suppressing its recognition as a precursor for a troff request). > \.\n[H3] > OVERVIEW > .XE > Why does it not produce: > 1.0.0.0 OVERVIEW . . . . . . Because \. isn't sufficient to hide the dot from the parser, which still recognises this as a request precursor. OTOH, when you use \\.\n[H3], you do prevent such recognition, because you've now placed a visible reverse solidus glyph before the initial dot. If you do use \& to "escape" the dot, you still will not get the effect you wanted, because you've introduced white space before each dot, (as a result of the newlines before each). Thus what you will get is: 1 .0 .0 OVERVIEW . . . . As Joerg has already pointed out, you could get around this by: .NH 1 OVERVIEW .XS \n[H1].\n[H2].\[H3] OVERVIEW .XE but this still isn't a good solution, for while .NH 1 does set the number register H1, it does *not* set H2, H3, or above -- they will simply remain set at whatever value they had after previous .NH 2, .NH 3, etc., which probably isn't what you want. A better solution, which Joerg also suggested, is to use: .NH 1 OVERVIEW .XS \*[SN_DOT] OVERVIEW .XE which will give you: 1. OVERVIEW . . . . or: .NH 1 OVERVIEW .XS \*[SN_NO_DOT] OVERVIEW .XE which will give you: 1 OVERVIEW . . . . if you prefer not to see the final dot after the section number; it will still insert dots *between* subhead levels, as in 1.1 SUBHEAD . . . Note that Joerg actually suggested \*[SN]; by default this is the same as \*[SN], (it's an alias), but using \*[SN_DOT] and \*[SN_NO_DOT] is more explicit, (and you can change the \*[SN] behaviour, e.g. by .als SN SN_NO_DOT if you prefer the latter behaviour). HTH, Keith. _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
