Re: Quick question: how to do .index in groff?

[Denis M. Wilson]

I have an indexing package which uses 'makeindex', and the results are
good. Indexing is quite complicated. If you care to look at the source
it is in Index,pkg part of
http://www.oxytropis.plus.com/groff/markup-1.0.7a.tar.gz
Denis

On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 16:13:41 -0700
B 9 <hackerb9@member.fsf.org> wrote:

> Heirloom Troff has a handy string search function called .index which
> works like this:
> 
> .index R xx string
> 
> The position where string occurs in xx is stored in register R.
> 
> It doesn't seem to work yet in Groff, but I'm hoping somebody has a
> macro that implements .index.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --b9
> 


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