On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 06:53:48PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> (I don't think teaching man to summon them based on $SHELL is a good
> idea, at least not until we or someone comes up with an overall master
> plan for modernizing how man page indexing, searching, and lookup
> works.)
This is an interesting discussion to have. I remember mentioning an index to
Jeremy C. Reed some time ago in the context of a book.
I know it is possible and easy to make a good index in LaTeX. How hard would
it be to make something similar for man-pages / troff? That is, without the
need to resort to .Xr; by creating some sort of database from the text itself.
(And by index I mean here a book-like index; something like
A
absolute pathname foo(1), bar(2), baz(9)
addressing, socket netintro(4), socket(2), unix(4)
assert macro assert(3)
...
.)
- Jukka.
