Re: Groff's -mm Indexing

[Damian McGuckin]

Hi Branden

On Sat, 1 Jul 2023, G. Branden Robinson wrote:

> > The new system won't really work because it uses \n[%] which is not
> > what I want to get as a page number. I want \nP because I reset it to
> > zero after the abstract.
>
> Isn't this the "heading mark"-based indexing that groff mm already
> supports?  You get at this by calling `INITI` with `H` as its first
> argument.

No.

        INITI N

uses \n[%].  But it is not the same as \nP or \n[P] which I have messed 
with (and which is what I want).

> Maybe not, though.  Looking at it, it's a bit clumsy--it really does use
> the "heading mark", e.g. "1.", "2.", "2.1.", "3.5.9", etc.  Complete
> with the two fixed-width spaces that separate this mark from a run-in
> heading.

> Further, there already exists a string without those trailing spaces,
> `hd@mark-trimmed`, which is what it seems `IND` should be using, but it
> doesn't.

I do not want the heading mark.

> Did I mention that there are a lot of loose ends in groff mm?

Yes. I know. But it is still pretty good.

> Yup, I took that out for groff 1.23.0 too.

Got it. One of these days if I ever get to shout that coffee I promised 
you when you were in Oz, I will tell you what I really wanted to write!

> Thanks for giving groff mm attention.  It has evidently been missing
> user feedback for quite a while.

It is an old habit which I have kept.

Thanks - Damian

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