List of... or Index of... as a text inset?

[Klaus Daube]

On 23 Apr 2008 at 9:57, Rene Stephenson wrote:

> It seems that at some point in time someone had mentioned setting up a TOC
> at the first of a chapter as a text inset so that it would auto-update
> when you generate the FM book file. (Maybe I'm dreaming...)
> 
> Well, I have come upon a situation where I could use that to track the
> chapter contents list as well as a quick-reference guide to the tables for
> various configurations in a chapter. However, I can't seem to get it to
> work properly.
> 
> I tried creating the "standalone" TOC for the relevant chapter using the
> desired subheadings, saved that file in with my other text insets and
> Alt-F,I,F (by reference) and it doesn't update when I update the text
> insets. Same problem with the chapter LOT that I set up the same way. At
> least the failure is consistent. :-\

Rene,

Yes, the updating calls for discipline fromt the user side - and hence I was happy to 
get the itl script DocToc. See http://www.itl.eu/156.html?&L=1

This script is powerful, but not free.

Klaus Daube
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