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Date:         Mon, 09 Jul 90 14:19:24 CET
From: Rainer Schoepf <BK4@DHDURZ1.bitnet>
Organization: Inst. f. Theor. Physik d. Univ. Heidelberg
Subject:      Re: startsection; table of contents
To: POPPELIE@HUTRUU53.uucp
In-Reply-To:  Your message of Fri, 6 Jul 90 15:57 N
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Nico,

I am thinking of two commands \pushlevel and \poplevel that are written
to the .aux or .toc file whenever a new level of sectioning is entered.
They could be implemented to increment/decrement a counter so that a
simple numerical comparison is sufficient to decide whether a .toc
entry should go into the table a contents currently set.  I would then
read the .toc file every time I want to generate a table of contents
but with the appropriate settings so that I get the right lines.

Perhaps this is also a good idea for all counters: instead of writing,
say `A-1' to the .aux file (for equation 1 in appendix A) we could
write

\pushlevel   % \appendix generates this
\currentsection{1}  % first appendix
\newlabel{xyz}{1}
...

Probably this would make it easier to implement hierarchical references,
i.e. writing (1) inside of appendix A, and (A-1) everywhere else.

All this is only an idea, and has to be worked out further, especially
in connection with Frank's idea to read the .aux file piecewise.

What do you think about it?

Rainer