Re: [Groff] Creating an index with mom

2014-04-24 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Peter, > > > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2012-09/msg00070.html > > > > When I checked the archive for this, the index.tmac and markup.ist are > > both .bin files. What gives? > > I'm guessing Mailman doesn't recognise the suffix

Re: [Groff] Creating an index with mom

2014-04-24 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2012-09/msg00070.html > > When I checked the archive for this, the index.tmac and markup.ist are > both .bin files. What gives? I'm guessing Mailman doesn't recognise the suffixes and that's why it's serving up $ curl -sSI http://l

Re: [Groff] Creating an index with mom

2014-04-24 Thread Denis M. Wilson
I've found this with attachments to archive entries, so I downloaded them and found they're plain text. Denis On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 19:37:15 -0400 Peter Schaffter wrote: > Denis -- > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014, Denis M. Wilson wrote: > > 7. I posted previously in this group. See > > http://lists

Re: [Groff] Creating an index with mom

2014-04-23 Thread Peter Schaffter
Denis -- On Thu, Apr 24, 2014, Denis M. Wilson wrote: > 7. I posted previously in this group. See > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2012-09/msg00070.html When I checked the archive for this, the index.tmac and markup.ist are both .bin files. What gives? -- Peter Schaffter http://ww

Re: [Groff] Creating an index with mom

2014-04-23 Thread Denis M. Wilson
Writing index stuff was quite a lot of work, but worth the effort as I've used it quite frequently. Here's my remarks. 1. I used makeindex, which comes with the TeXLive package. 2. It uses a style file, and there are examples in the man page. 3. My macros use .write so troff cannot be used in s

Re: [Groff] Creating an index with mom

2014-04-23 Thread Keith Marshall
On 22/04/14 18:31, Peter Schaffter wrote: > I have an aversion to LISP so xindy is out (someone once remarked > that LISP stands for Lost In Superfluous Parentheses), and I'm not > well-versed about makeindex. However, I'm thinking that if Denis > has got indexing working with makeindex, perhaps t

Re: [Groff] Creating an index with mom

2014-04-22 Thread Peter Schaffter
Blake -- Sorry to take so long to respond. Easter and all that. On Sat, Apr 19, 2014, Blake McBride wrote: > I would absolutely prefer to have a one-size-fits-all index ability within > mom rather than no real ability at all. Also, IMO, once a > one-size-fits-all index is added, I am sure forma

Re: [Groff] Creating an index with mom

2014-04-21 Thread Denis M. Wilson
There is a fully functional indexing facility in my -markup macro system (http://www.oxytropis.plus.com/groff). It uses makeindex. It could be adapted for format control by using a different syle file. Thus the feasibilty of indexing is demonstrated. I never got round to finding how to use xindy fo

[Groff] Creating an index with mom

2014-04-19 Thread Blake McBride
Greetings, I have been looking at the topic of creating a document index with mom. It seems there is no standard way. I saw some older comments about the difficulty of having tight control of an index's layout. So I have one statement, and one question. I would absolutely prefer to have a one-