E.11.PFP:4.2 - Put public units into the established Table of Contents

Immediately after the single # Table of Contents H1, continue the product’s established ToC grammar. Represent the exact Readme and Preface before the logical pattern index using the same kind of labelled segment and rows already used for non-pattern units in that product. When an established ToC already represents Preface and pattern groups, add Readme there; do not invent a generic Publication route, a second mini-menu, or a new table shape. A non-pattern publication unit receives no fabricated PatternID. Its product-declared entry remains mechanically recognizable and, when the carrier supports links, resolves to the exact unit.

Place the one authoritative logical pattern index after those public-unit entries. It may be one table or several ordered, uniquely labelled Part or placement segments. Every authoritative segment uses:

| § | ID & Title | Status | Keywords & Search Queries | Dependencies |

Across all segments, every pattern body has exactly one row, every row resolves to exactly one body, and no PatternID appears twice. A Part label groups rows for navigation; it is not a pattern row, a semantic parent, or another index.

PatternID, title, Part, and § position remain separate even when one row displays them together. PatternID supplies the stable public address within the named framework; the title explains the pattern; Part and § show where the current edition places it. Within each Part, the ToC rows and pattern bodies follow the same order. That order need not ascend by PatternID, and moving or retitling a pattern does not by itself change its PatternID.

When the surrounding text does not already identify the framework, name the framework together with the PatternID. To select the body published in one edition, also name that framework edition. For a DPF, E.4.DPF supplies the choice of reference code and local locator, and the continuity decision; this profile only makes the selected distinctions visible in the publication.

Reserve Support index — <lookup job> for a secondary pattern lookup. Its exact header is:

| PatternID | Pattern title | Lookup use |

Ordinary relation, source-return, maintenance, and reference tables may cite PatternIDs under truthful headings and other complete headers. Do not infer that they are indexes from their cell values. Reject a second # Table of Contents, a Pattern Index heading for the same job, an authoritative header outside the authoritative ToC region, or a support heading and header that do not occur together. Public-unit entries are navigation inside the one ToC, not another pattern catalogue.