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To: walt <[e-mail]>
Cc: kary berry archive-help <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: why does toc appear at end of ps file
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Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 22:43:03 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <[e-mail]>
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>     when using dvips to process a dvifile the TeX table of contents
>     usuall appears at the end numbered -1,-2, ... Why? How can I
>     remedy this without clumsily setting the options -p and -l on
>     the command line of dvips?

I presume you're using Gnu TeXinfo?  This does indeed stick the toc at
the end (thus enabling itself to process a document with no cross-
references in one pass).  The negative page numbers cause the number
to come out in lower-case roman numerals (analagously to the way plain
TeX's \folio does the job).  I guess the GNU people just don't have
access to printers that force duplex printing...

I don't know of any other packge that prints toc at the end and gives
it negative page numbers.  In my use of TeX, this arrangement is far
from `usual'.