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

[Robert Goulding]

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.