[XeTeX] Table of contents

[Vladimir Lomov]

** José Carlos Santos [2010-04-30 11:09:30 +0100]:

> On 30-04-2010 10:22, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> >>But I think it is a flaw.

> >Which proof do you have?

> Are you requesting a proof of an opinion? That's rather strange, but
> I will do my best.

> Please consider again this file:

> \documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{book}
> \usepackage[frenchb]{babel}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \usepackage{xunicode}
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> \begin{document}
> \frontmatter
> \tableofcontents
> \XeTeXinputencoding "cp1252"
> \XeTeXdefaultencoding "cp1252"
> \mainmatter\setcounter{secnumdepth}{2}
> \chapter{Général de Gaulle}
> Il était français.
> \end{document}

> When the \tableofcontents command is found, the line

> \XeTeXinputencoding "cp1252"

> was not read yet. Therefore, it seems to me (since XeTeX is
> unicode-based) that the file .toc is in unicode and therefore that
> XeLaTeX should have no problem with it.

Reconsider your thoughts from beginning but take into account that in
first run there is no TOC file.

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