How to change the \see command when indexing with multind?

Question

I'm trying to change the output of \see in the index. The default outcome is:

John Doe see Doe, John.

I'd like to add a new command or change this one to my native language. I tried to declare a \newcommand or to \renewcommand but I'm failing syntax as I keep on getting errors when latexing the document. (Not even dare to replicate them here.)

P.S: I guess that changing see to classical ways, such as vd. or vide would do the trick for most languages.

The command you have to change is \seename; with babel this is automatic. — egreg, Jul 24 '13 at 22:22
I am using babel. And \index{John Doe|see{Doe, John}} results in see. Apparently it is not affected by Babel. — John, Jul 24 '13 at 22:51
The solution in How to change the name of document elements like "Figure", "Contents", "Bibliography" etc.? does not work for me. Maybe it is because I'm using multind package. I believe it overrides makeidx because it declares this \def\see#1#2{{\em see\/} #1}. — John, Jul 24 '13 at 23:04

egreg · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-24T23:23:32.677

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The multind package is really old and didn't follow the change in makeidx when the explicit see was changed into seename.

You can correct this by saying

\renewcommand*{\see}[2]{\emph{\seename} #1}

after having loaded multind. This should adjust the compatibility with babel. If you need to change \seename, then add something like

\addto\captions<language>{\renewcommand{\seename}{vide}}

(for instance \captionsitalian if your language is Italian).

There are more recent packages for multiple indices: index, splitidx and imakeidx. I'm biased towards the last one. ;-)

edited Jul 24 '13 at 23:23

answered Jul 24 '13 at 23:13

egreg

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It worked. Although now it also shows the page where the index entry, which it shouldn't as it is a crossreferring index entry. Actually \see didn't show the page.
P.S: I din't tried imakeidx. I didn't run into it when I looked for a multiple index package. As for the other two, I liked multind better. – John Jul 24 '13 at 23:21
@John Sorry, I typed [1] instead of [2] – egreg Jul 24 '13 at 23:23

How to change the \see command when indexing with multind?

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