Javier wrote: > > - are there other templates missing that do radically different things? > > Yes. Entries grouped in a single paragraph. For instance: > > 1) First section, 3. 2) Second section, 5. 3) Third section, 7. 4)... quite right, i have a couple of layouts for tocs that do use those and have halfway tried my hands on that already (but not finished) > It so happens that I'm working in a new release of a package for > formatting of toc entries which already provides such a kind of > indexes in the currently available version. However, adapting may i (we have a look) at the 2e version of this package? i don't mind it being in a non-distributable/working state as long as the underlying ideas can be looked at without too much trouble nevertheless i'm eager to see you trying to produce a template or two for it since only this way we can see where the template concept needs corrections > it to the suggested templates is turning out to be more difficult > as I expected because most of things are handled in a quite > different way. The same applies to partial tocs. However, can you try to explain why or how partial tocs are a problem or handled quite differently in your approach? (not that they are yet really handled in xcontents at all > I will persist (I have got no much time, I'm afraid), and if I get > some result I will send to this list. great frank