NAME

subj − generate a list of subjects from a document

SYNOPSIS

subj file(s)

DESCRIPTION

subj searches file(s) for subjects that might be appropriate in a subject-page index and prints the list of subjects on the standard output.  The document should contain formatting commands (from nroff, troff, and mm among others) to make the best use of subj. 

SEE ALSO

ndx(1), troff(1), mm(1), nroff(1). 

WARNINGS

subj selects sequences of capitalized words as subjects except the first word in each sentence.  Thus,if a sentence begins with a proper noun, the capitalization rule will not select this word as a subject.  On the other hand, since each sentence is expected to begin on a newline, the first word of a sentence that begins in the middle of a line may be erroneously selected. 

The output of subj may not be appropriate for your needs and should be edited accordingly. 

BUGS

subj also selects as subjects modifier-noun sequences from the abstract, headings and topic sentences (the first sentence in each paragraph, and occasionally a word is incorrectly categorized as a noun or adjective. 

Version 2.5r1  —  December 06, 1986