Re: removing the .IX macro from the ms package in 1.23 breaks old documents

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2024-10-04T22:23:40+0200, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> I don't have any evidence other than
> 
>   a) empirically, it fixes Joerg's problem.
>   b) logically, it is necessary, as the leaders and the
>      pagenumber are attached to the end of the line, so one
>      needs to guarantee that there is enough space for them.
>   c) aesthetically, you don't want the text in the TOC to
>      extend all the way to the right margin, so that the
>      pagenumbers stand out (literally and figuratively).
>      That means that the margin for the text (= 8n) should
>      be larger than the space for the pagenumbers
>      (= TC-MARGIN = \w'000').

I believe you.  I simply want to lay my own eyes on it.  Doing so will
help me write a regression test.

> Of course the macro also needs to be upgraded to properly format
> multi-line TOC entries, but that's a different problem.

Anyone want to volunteer?  :)

Regards,
Branden

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