.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- .\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps .\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection .\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) .TH ngmakeidx 1 "2012-06-02" .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. .\" .\" Some roff macros, for reference: .\" .nh disable hyphenation .\" .hy enable hyphenation .\" .ad l left justify .\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins .\" .nf disable filling .\" .fi enable filling .\" .br insert line break .\" .sp insert n+1 empty lines .\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) .SH NAME ngmakeidx \- Changes .txt files to .idx .SH SYNOPSIS .B ngmakeidx .RI -o foo.idx foo.txt .br .SH DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the .B ngmakeidx command. .PP .\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB\fP and .\" \fI\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics, .\" respectively. \fBngmakeidx\fP reformats some type of .txt files and writes them as .idx files. .SH OPTIONS This program does not support normal command line options. It must be used in the following way: ngmakeidx \-o foo.idx foo.txt .SH AUTHOR ngmakeidx was written at the University of California. .PP This manual page was written by Gudjon I. Gudjonsson , for the Debian project (and may be used by others).