Re: Groff's -mm Indexing

[Damian McGuckin]

Hi Branden,

I stayed up watching the cricket.  It has now finished.

On Fri, 30 Jun 2023, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>
Sorry, those were grep'ed frominside my own text but I was not using 
'mmroff'. I thought I could use 'groff' directly.

> Also you do _not_ need to create the index file beforehand.

I noticed that in your example.

> Right.  Your minimalism was too minimal.  In practice, index entries 
> correspond to some item of text or at least a location in the document. 
> Your document never even started the first page (in the initial run).

OK, I ran 'mmroff' and I can not see it works.

Does that mean I can use all my 'groff' options to 'mmroff' for when I 
want to do index processing. It is a Perl script. Sorry, my brain cannot 
read Perl.

Thanks - Damian

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