ctwill and table of contents ToC

[joaocortes]

ctwill does not produce a ToC, even with the option +x. According to the man documentation,

       • -x: omit indices, section names, table of contents

Running ctwill-twinx attempt.tex > index.tex creates a master index, but there is no table of contents.

Is this by design?

[ascherer]

Yes, it is by design. See ctwimac.tex and pdfctwimac.tex for details about \inx, \fin, and \con. If you use ctwill +pdf (and a TeX engine for PDF output), at least you should get "bookmarks" as a table-of-contents.

[ascherer]

In fact, the ctwill executable – just like its sibling cweave – does create files jobname.idx, jobname.scn, and jobname.toc (replace jobname appropriately). It's just the TeX macros that are not elaborate enough to process these informations at this time. (Personally, I never came around to even learn the usage of ctwill-twinx to generate a “master index” for ctwill.w and common.w.) Feel free to write extensions and submit a pull request.

[joaocortes]

Thanks. I got it after looking at the different definitions of those macros. When using ctwill, \con is never defined. It seems to be a strange choice. I can't think of any reason why ctwill should have an harder time building the ToC. I will try to write an extension, as soon as I have time to do that.

[ascherer]

You may want to look at CWEB 4.3 dev. The extended pdfctwimac.tex already produces a table-of-contents

• at the end of the PDF
• it does not yet cooperate with pdfwebtocfront.tex
• all page numbers are 0

[joaocortes]

Hi again. I am trying to get this solved. I looked into the current version ofpdfctwimac.tex, and it seems it still does not produce a ToC. Did you reference the wrong branch on your last comment?

[ascherer]

The current state of affairs is CWEB 4.9 dev and CWEBbin 4.9 dev. Table-of-Contents in CTWILL was not on the top of the list.