> > Indexing is quite complicated
Denis: he's not referring to *content* indexing, but a Heirloom Troff request named `.index` which should arguably be named `.indexof` instead. It simply returns the index of a substring if found within a larger string, presumably returning -1 to indicate nothing was found. On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 at 19:33, Denis M. Wilson <d...@oxytropis.plus.com> wrote: > 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 <hacke...@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 > > > > > -- > >
