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

[Jorgen Grahn]

On Mon Mar  8 16:20:23 2004, address@hidden wrote:
>    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.

The late W. R. Stevens has written a bit about how he did the indices (sp?)
for his books:

  http://www.kohala.com/start/indexing.html

Don't know how state-of-the-art that is.

/Jörgen

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