Building an Index with Troff

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From: Tom Truscott
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1985 19:07

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Has anyone added the ability to 'index' a troff document?
The '-me' package includes the .(x ... .)x table of contents
generator, but it does not sort the table or permit
multi-level index entries. Other text processing packages
such as 'SCRIPT' do provide these capabilities.

For example, here is an indexing example from the 'SCRIPT' manual:

	Sentence in which cats
	.ix cats
	are mentioned in general terms. ...
	Sentence in which Siamese cats
	.ix cats Thai
	are discussed. ...
	.ix cats . 'see also "felines"'


The index would appear as:

	cats, 5, see also "felines"
	    Thai, 37

If someone has something like this please let me know,
otherwise I am going to have to write one.

	Tom Truscott

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