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- From: hartman@informix.com (Robert Hartman)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
- Subject: Re: how to get permuted index?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.184848.1047@informix.com>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 18:48:48 GMT
- References: <184835@pyramid.pyramid.com>
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- In article <184835@pyramid.pyramid.com> perrotta@pyrxbooter.eng.pyramid.com (Paul Perrotta) writes:
- >We're looking at moving some of documentation from Documenter's
- >WorkBench (Doctools) to FrameMaker. Currently, we use Doctools to
- >create a permuted index of our man pages. (A permuted index is not the
- >same as a master index.)
- >
- >Does anyone know of a way to use FrameMaker to produce the same thing?
- >
- >
- >-Paul
-
- Hmmm. So I gather that you're planning on migrating your man pages to
- Frame? Well, let's see. As I recall, ptx (or whichever utility it is
- that doctools uses) takes just the text of the NAME lines and permutes
- the words. I can't think of a way for Frame to import this
- functionality (or any other functionality for that matter). If you're
- using Frame 3.0, you can set off the NAME lines in conditional text,
- turn off the conditional display of all text but the NAME lines, then
- save as text and run the saved text through the standard ptx | nroff
- pipeline, and import the result into a Frame document.
-
- -r
-