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From: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.sources.wanted,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Wanted: Documentation Indexing Tools
Summary: Bourne's book "The UNIX System"
Keywords: Nroff-based indexing
Message-ID: <6829@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 88 01:54:14 GMT
References: <4597@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Reply-To: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
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In article <4597@brspyr1.BRS.Com> bob@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Bob Armao) writes:
>We  use  nroff  with our own customized macros to construct and format a
>permuted index...
>
>I'm  looking  for  an  approach  (public  domain or otherwise) that will
>enable us to produce a more  traditional-looking  and  effective  index.
>For  now  we  have  to live within the restrictions of nroff and family.

S.R.Bourne (author of /bin/sh) in his book "The Unix Shell", published by
International Computer Science Series, ISBN 0-201-13791-7, might have
what you want on pages 171-175. I've elaborated on what he did a bit,
and I get very nice indices.

Generally speaking, you insert a macro with index words here and there
in your text. This gets printed with '.tm' to stderr diverted to a
file which is later processed by sed, sort, tbl, and nroff.

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