rbl@cwruecmp.UUCP (Robin Lake) (05/23/87)
Mailing via portal.com would not reach Tony, so I'll post here: In article <372@cup.portal.com> Tony Makonnen writes: >lI need help or pointers for use of the ptx command on xenix sys V >found on SCO text processing module . I get a permuted index but ca >not tell what to do with it . can page references be inserted ? where can >I find some more meaningful coverage of this utility. Thank you ptx produces output in the form: .xx "tail""before keyword""keyword and after""head" where .xx may be an nroff macro for user defined formatting. The "before keyword" and "keyword and after" fields incorporate as much of the line as will fit around the keyword, when it is printed in the middle of the page. "Tail" and "head" at least one of which is an empty string "", are wrapped around pieces small enough to fit in the unused space at the opposite end of the line. When original text must be discarded '/' marks the spot. For the ptx output file, the nroff .xx macro was defined as: \\$1 \\$2 \\$3 \\$4 \\$5 for the final output. The final output, in our case, is published as "A Keyword-in-context Index to Computers and Dentistry" R. B. Lake and M. Bhat. Available from National Technical Information Service, Springfield VA as PB83-186361. There was also a brief note on this in the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine circa 1982. Rob Lake decvax!cwruecmp!nitrex!rbl