Re: Portability to Mac OS X (was: Sed failure in contrib/sboxes on MacOS)

[T. Kurt Bond]

> The pdf I sent to the list yesterday [
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2021-10/msg00094.html ] Is
produced entirely by groff and has a full clickable index.

Wonderful!  Someone *was* suitably inspired to implement multiple indexes!

Would it be possible to get references to the start of each index in the
table of contents?

On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 3:42 PM Deri <deri@chuzzlewit.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

> On Friday, 29 October 2021 19:38:42 BST T. Kurt Bond wrote:
>
> > [I hit "reply" on my previous attempt at this email, so it went only to
>
> > Ralph.  Sorry about that.  At least this version has the correct CSTR #.]
>
> > I'm an emacs user, and I use the info version of the groff texinfo
> manual,
>
> > as well as the manual pages, and usually go to the trouble of getting the
>
> > PDF version of the groff texinfo manual as well.  I tend to use the
> manual
>
> > pages for quick reference and the info version for more detailed reading.
>
> > While I'd miss the info version, I also understand why the groff
>
> > project would rather have its documentation in a groff-native format.
>
> >
>
> > One advantage that the texinfo manual has that *isn't* built into groff
> -ms
>
> > is the multiple indexes that the texinfo manual produces.  I suspect
>
> > someone properly motivated could produce something that would do that,
>
> > based on CSTR 128, "Tools for Printing Indexes", and pdfmark, at least
> for
>
> > PDF output.  I have no idea what would be necessary for HTML output.
>
> The pdf I sent to the list yesterday:-
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2021-10/msg00094.html
>
> Is produced entirely by groff and has a full clickable index.
>
> Cheers
>
> Deri
>
>

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T. Kurt Bond, tkurtbond@gmail.com, https://tkurtbond.github.io