The "Tools for Printing Indexes" report (128.ps) mentions .XX macro from index.head for formatting index entries. And it includes a copy of index.head at the end of the report.
I am trying to figure out how to make a "keyword-in-context" (KWIC) permuted index. (My definition is different than the one in the report above.) It is an alphabetical list of keywords, with some surrounding context. The keywords are formatted so they are aligned vertically. Here is an example of what I have tried: $ cat J.permutted.1 ypbind(8) ypbind - create and maintain a binding to a NIS server ypinit(8) ypinit - initialize NIS subsystem yppoll(8) yppoll - ask version of NIS map from NIS server yppush(8) yppush - force distribution of NIS map ypserv(8) ypserv - NIS server daemon ypset(8) ypset - tell ypbind(8) which NIS server process to use yptest(8) yptest - calls different NIS routines ypxfr(8) ypxfr - get a NIS map from NIS server zdump(8) zdump - time zone dumper zic(8) zic - time zone compiler $ gptx -G -r -t -b break -f -w 108 -i ignore J.permutted.1 J.permutted.2 (from coreutils) $ head -5 J.permutted.2 .xx "" "yppoll -" "ask version of NIS map from NIS server" "" "yppoll(8)" .xx "" "ypbind - create and maintain a" "binding to a NIS server" "" "ypbind(8)" .xx "" "yptest -" "calls different NIS routines" "" "yptest(8)" .xx "" "zic - time zone" "compiler" "" "zic(8)" .xx "" "ypbind -" "create and maintain a binding to a NIS server" "" "ypbind(8)" (By the way, I don't understand why the above is split this way.) $ groff -ms index.head J.permutted.2 > J.ps $ head J.ps %!PS-Adobe-3.0 %%Creator: groff version 1.19.2 %%CreationDate: Fri Sep 26 15:49:14 2008 %%DocumentNeededResources: font Times-Roman %%+ font Times-Bold %%DocumentSuppliedResources: procset grops 1.19 2 %%Pages: 1 %%PageOrder: Ascend %%DocumentMedia: Default 612 792 0 () () %%Orientation: Portrait J.ps doesn't seem to have anything viewable. What is a good procedure for this? Where is a "index.head" I should use? Jeremy C. Reed
