Re: [Groff] Sun's troff now available

[Larry Kollar]

Joerg van den Hoff wrote:

> Larry Kollar wrote:
> > I stumbled across this today, and didn't see anything about it in  
> > the archives.
> > http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools.html
>
> that's rather interesting! installation is a bit funny: you have to  
> edit `mk.config' and set lots of dirnames manually (no configure)  
> but then
> `make; make install' (you need a ucb compatibel `install') worked  
> without a single warning (under MacOS, which might be a consequence  
> of the fact that this is very near to FreeBSD anyway).....
>
> and there is ptx included: is this a good tool for index generating  
> or can I forget about it (did'nt catch the bottom line of the  
> recent thread)?

It probably works OK. There's also a ptx in GNU textutils, with  
several extensions over the AT&T version, that compiles in OSX with  
minimal fiddling. The Heirloom manpage for their ptx is probably  
better than the GNU version though.

The bottom line of my experiments with ptx is that I bit off a rather  
large chunk of text; after eliminating some unhelpful keywords I got  
my permuted index down to 198 pages. Either ptx is probably fine for  
its intended purpose.

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