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From: jbw@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Jingbai  Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: automatic document indexing
Keywords: troff, index generation
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Date: 12 Jul 89 17:33:59 GMT
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Reply-To: jbw@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Jingbai  Wang)
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In article <615853968.29896@myrias.uucp> dbf@myrias.uucp (David Ferrier) writes:
>Does anyone know of anything for troff that will allow me
>to specify the words or phrases I want to index, then generate 
>an alphabetical index consisting of these words and phrases with 
>the pages where they appear in the document?


I have created something called `indexor' in C for introducing index
entries and glossary entries in a Scribe .mss file (for all the four
Scribe @index, @indexentry, @seealso, @indexsecondary commands) and
LaTeX \index command. It can be setup for any program like troff. It
was designed for VMS, DOS and UNIX with an ANSI terminal, but I haven't
fully tested it out on UNIX. The program itself is a part of my Scribe
TEC.mak database package (distributed freely, and very powerful). If
you are interested, I will make it available. If I find time to debug
it on UNIX (BSD first), I will do it shortly.


JB Wang

jbw@pittvms.bitnet
jbw@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu