I use makeindex for 25 years and I know it isn't perfect. Since xindy is now available also for MiKTeX, I would be happy to switch to this more modern and flexible index processor. Now, I'm looking for a way to make legacy documents work with xindy.
For makeindex, I use a simple style file german.ist which changes actual, quote and level to operate with umlauts in babel:
actual '='
quote '!'
level '>'
I need to keep these changes also for xindy since I have a plethora of documents and macros which rely on these settings.
Here is a MWE of a working document with makeindex:
% compiled with pdflatex
\begin{filecontents*}{german.ist}
actual '='
quote '!'
level '>'
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[makeindex]{imakeidx}
\makeindex[options=-s german.ist -g]
\begin{document}
Test
\index{a}\index{b}\index{"a}\index{"u}
\index{Bart}
\index{B"uro}
\index{Brause>gr"un}
\index{Bach}
\index{Ma"s}
\index{Burg=\textbf{Burg}}
\index{Buch|textbf}
\index{B"arte}
\index{B"ose}
\index{Brause>gelb}
\index{Blind}
\index{Brause}
\index{B"acker}
\printindex
\end{document}
Now, I tried to adapt this example for xindy:
% compiled with pdflatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[texindy]{imakeidx}
\makeindex[options=-L german-duden -C latin1]
\begin{document}
Test
\index{a}\index{b}\index{"a}\index{"u}
\index{Bart}
\index{B"uro}
\index{Brause>gr"un}
\index{Bach}
\index{Ma"s}
\index{Burg=\textbf{Burg}}
\index{Buch|textbf}
\index{B"arte}
\index{B"ose}
\index{Brause>gelb}
\index{Blind}
\index{Brause}
\index{B"acker}
\printindex
\end{document}
Here, a counterpart of german.ist is missing. I get the following:
Could somebody help me to get the correct xindy configuration for this example?


\index{B""uro}so you could do something equivalent to\appto\@sanitize{\shorthandon{"}\def"{\string"\string"}}– Ulrike Fischer Jul 27 '15 at 08:31