_____/ On Sun 22 Jan 2006 20:50:42 GMT, [John Heaton] wrote : \_____
After Saturday's talk, I had a play around with a few of the more
obscure commands/options.
In the good old days, I remember playing around with a document
processing system that had a 'KWIC' index. The 'ptx' command gives
that kind of output. If you just use the command with a text file as
an option the output isn't of much use, but add a few options...
ptx -ARfw70 Oxford_Book_Of_English_Verse.txt
The document name and line numbers are added to each line and the
index is made case-insensitive with the width set to 70 characters
(minus the name/line field).
The output index is quite large - several times the size of the
original file, which is why KWIC indexes used to skip certain common
words like 'and; the; is' etc...
John
I could not attend Saturday's talk as I'm currently away, but if what you
seek to achieve are fancy plain-text outputs, also consider paradj (
http://freshmeat.net/projects/paradj/ ) , which uses TeX libraries for
indentation, hyphenation, and justification. I often use this tool to
re-format E-mail/newsgroups messages. Also, be aware that LyX (
http://lyx.org ), a front-end to LaTeX, can produce nice-looking plain-text
output. TOC's and indices should be included too.
Best wishes,
Roy
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