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I am writing a book using the Springer SVM monograph class. I want to create multiple indexes, and have found a few resources: How can I have two or more distinct indexes? http://www.texfaq.org/FAQ-multind

...and others

At the end of each of these descriptions it says to "execute the following commands" '''makeindex myfile makeindex myfile.adx -o myfile.and'''

My issue is that I am using Overleaf to collaborate with my coauthors. I'm not sure how to "execute commands" in Overleaf, and thus cant seem to make these options work. How do I execute commands in Overleaf?

A small use case can be found here: https://www.overleaf.com/read/wgrfqbmkrmwv

Compiling in overleaf gives one index (the one containing FAQs}, but not two.

Deborah Weeks
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    overleaf uses latexmk so it usually detects this and runs makeindex on its own, although you could ad a latexmkrc file to configure things more if you need finer control – David Carlisle Feb 08 '21 at 20:08
  • when I recompile the second index doesnt appear. I have \usepackage{index} ... \makeindex
    \newindex{aut}{adx}{and}{Name Index} .... then in the body of a chapter I have: \index[aut]{Another Idiot} \index{FAQs} ... then back in the main.tex file, after all of the "include" statements I have:

    \printindex \printindex[aut]

    only the first index shows.

     – Deborah Weeks Feb 08 '21 at 21:40
  • sorry, I'm a complete noobie here. How do I provide a small document? – Deborah Weeks Feb 08 '21 at 22:01
  • I see you figured it out (but three back ticks not three apostrophe to mark a code block, I fixed) – David Carlisle Feb 08 '21 at 22:07
  • mm if you look in the log you will see Latexmk: Index file 'dd820.adx' written ==> but it has an extension I do not know how to handle <== that must be fixable.. – David Carlisle Feb 08 '21 at 22:10

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If you use an example from the latexmk manual saved as latexmkrc then latexmk knows about adx files and builds your document

add_cus_dep( 'adx', 'and', 0, 'ndx2nnd' );
sub ndx2nnd {return system( "makeindex -o \"$_[0].and\" \"$_[0].adx\"" );}
push @generated_exts, 'adx', 'and';

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The above was done locally but here is a project on overleaf

https://www.overleaf.com/read/wxdpbbstkypb

David Carlisle
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  • This works really well for the use case I gave, however I'm struggling to use it for the document class "svmono". I am linking an Overleaf file in the original question and here: https://www.overleaf.com/read/wgrfqbmkrmwv – Deborah Weeks Feb 10 '21 at 00:58