Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rti-sel.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!mcnc!rti-sel!trt From: trt@rti-sel.UUCP (Tom Truscott) Newsgroups: net.text Subject: Building an Index with Troff Message-ID: <335@rti-sel.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 15:07:05 EDT Article-I.D.: rti-sel.335 Posted: Thu Aug 8 15:07:05 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 08:27:14 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Research Triangle Institute, NC Lines: 26 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