Joerg van den Hoff wrote:
Larry Kollar wrote:
I stumbled across this today, and didn't see anything about it in
the archives.
http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools.html
that's rather interesting! installation is a bit funny: you have to
edit `mk.config' and set lots of dirnames manually (no configure)
but then
`make; make install' (you need a ucb compatibel `install') worked
without a single warning (under MacOS, which might be a consequence
of the fact that this is very near to FreeBSD anyway).....
and there is ptx included: is this a good tool for index generating
or can I forget about it (did'nt catch the bottom line of the
recent thread)?
It probably works OK. There's also a ptx in GNU textutils, with
several extensions over the AT&T version, that compiles in OSX with
minimal fiddling. The Heirloom manpage for their ptx is probably
better than the GNU version though.
The bottom line of my experiments with ptx is that I bit off a rather
large chunk of text; after eliminating some unhelpful keywords I got
my permuted index down to 198 pages. Either ptx is probably fine for
its intended purpose.
--
Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t
Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival"
http://unixtext.org/
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