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Re: [Groff] Table-of-Contents and Index Generation


From: Robert Goulding
Subject: Re: [Groff] Table-of-Contents and Index Generation
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 20:05:55 -0500
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Quoting "Andrew J. Piziali" <address@hidden>:

>    Might any of my esteemed fellow Unix text processors care to offer
> some advice on generating a table-of-contents and index for a book
> written using the MS macros?  I suppose the ToC could be written into a
> diversion from .NH/.SH wrappers but I have never attempted this.  I'm
> not sure how to tackle an index.  The word list is easy but associating
> a sequence of page numbers with each seems daunting.
> 

I've never tried it myself, but have a look at makeindex (comes with TeX, or
available standalone from any CTAN node).  This actually includes example
macros for using with -ms troff.

Robert.




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