Printing section number with troff -ms macros.

[Arnold Robbins]

In article <1990Oct30.224252.7998 at athena.mit.edu> drk at athena.mit.edu (David R Kohr) writes:
>I am trying to produce a Table of Contents which includes the section number
>as well as page number for each item listed.

I came up with this macro recently.  It does all the work for you.  Use this
macro *instead of* the .NH and .XS/.XE macros, and put a .TC at the end.
(It does answer your question, too; string register SN has the section number.)

	."
	." HN - Heading that are numbered and produce a Table of Contents entry
	."
	." Usage:   .NH level "text"
	."
	.de HN
	.NH \\$1
	\\$2
	.XS \\n(PN
	\\*(SN \\$2
	.XE
	..
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