Re: [Groff] Indexing these days with groff

[Denis M. Wilson]

Hello all,

I have indexing in my -markup macros (which do the same sort of job as
-mom but differently). It uses the conventions of makeindex, and creates
several intermediate files (so has to be used with groff -U). The
process is automatic using the .Index macro. You can find the source and
documentation in

http://www.oxytropis.plus.com/groff/

where there is a rather old version (I'll try to find time to update
it), but it's worked well for many years.

I don't know of any other troff macro package with indexing.

Denis

On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:34:35 +0200
Johann Höchtl <address@hidden> wrote:

> Fellow groffers,
> 
> what is the prefered method of creating indexes with groff these days?
> 
> Mainly I am only aware of
> 
> Tools for Printing Indexes 
> <http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/128.ps.gz>, CSTR #128, J. L.
> Bentley and B. W. Kernighan <http://troff.org/whoswho.html#bwk>, Bell
> Labs, October 1986.
> available for download at
> http://netlib.sandia.gov/typesetting/indexing.tools
> and used in the community resurection of
> 
> 
>   Unix Text Processing
> 
> available at
> ftp://ftp.ffii.org/pub/groff/contrib/documentation/utp/utp-1.0.tar.gz
> 
> I found the CSTR quite difficult. Has anybody some recent experience
> in indexing or some newer helpers?
> BTW. I would try to do it with the mom macro package
> 
> Greetings, Johann
> 


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