Hi Damian, Okay. Here is the example I used to figure out the feature and update the documentation. This is using groff 1.22.4. You will notice page breaks in annoying places (this is a bug fix I have queued for post-1.23.0), but the index _is_ present.
Procedure: $ mkdir /tmp/branden/damian $ cp EXPERIMENTS/use-index.mm /tmp/branden/damian $ cd /tmp/branden/damian $ mmroff use-index.mm > use-index.ps $ evince use-index.ps At 2023-07-01T01:20:44+1000, Damian McGuckin wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jun 2023, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Does this help? > > No. But maybe it is me. > > .INITI P "damian" \" I must create "damian.ind" beforehand > > .IND item0 > > .IND item1 > > .IND item2 > > .INDO \" at the point where I want the Index > > I see a new page, and two empty pages. Oh! You created index entries before you had any text. Even the first page hadn't started yet. I reckon I could add a test to `IND` to make it howl if the vertical drawing position is negative at the time it is called. Also you do _not_ need to create the index file beforehand. > That's all. No errors. 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). > Off to sleep now. I hope you wake up to a happier result. Regards, Branden
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