From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2004-08-05T02:42:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Pickaxe index question - LaTeX idea needed

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 20:16:10 +0900, Albert Chou <achou@tealeaf.com> wrote:
> Bill Kleb is right, sounds either like a question for the TeX newsgroup
> or FAQ.  My guess is you may have to edit a .sty style file to get this
> sort of customization.  Chapter headings at the tops of pages behave
> that way by default in LaTeX, if I remember correctly, so what you
> propose certainly seems possible (and hopefully not in the
> just-Turing-equivalent sense! <g>).  My recollections of LaTeX/TeX
> programming (and even just writing documents in LaTeX) is that whatever
> was provided by the macro package or style file author worked nicely,
> but it was frustrating to try to change/customize.  Of course, my
> knowledge of TeX as a language (and even LaTeX, to a lesser degree) was
> at a fairly elementary level!
> 

I think what Dave was saying here was that there was a discussion _on
ruby-talk_ about this, and he's trying to recall who had the solution.
 Normally he wouldn't send LaTeX questions to ruby-talk :)

Chad
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Thomas [mailto:dave@pragprog.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 12:05 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Pickaxe index question - LaTeX idea needed
> 
> A while back, there was a discussion of somehow adding a bit of magic
> to the PickAxe index such that is a first level entry continued across
> a page break, the first-level heading would somehow repeat at the top
> of the second page. So, if the class list spread across two pages,
> you'd get something like:
> 
>    Classes
>        A
>        B
>        C
>     ------------- new page
>    Classes (cont...)
>        D
>        E
> 
> Now that I need to do this, I can't find the discussion anywhere. Does
> this ring a bell with anyone? Can this be done in LaTeX?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Dave
>