How to do real indexing with troff -me?

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From: here kitty, kitty...
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 1990 23:15

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I'm looking for ways to generate a real index in a troff document
formatted with the -me macros.  The ME .(x and .)x don't do the job as
they don't sort and collapse entries.

Please email responses; I don't read this group often.

thanks,
-dB
"Bo knows Elvis.  Bo IS Elvis."
David Brower: {amdahl, cpsc6a, mtxinu, sun}!rtech!daveb daveb@rtech.com

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