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I am using revtex4-1 in a document with many short subsections (2-3 per page). Rather than the page number, I would like my index to refer to the section and subsection (i.e. "example, 2.1" for the item 'example' in section 2, subsection 1). The code below does everything I want, except there is no "." between the section and subsection numbers:

\documentclass[rmp]{revtex4-1}
\usepackage{makeidx}

\makeatletter
  \def\@wrindex#1{%
    \protected@write\@indexfile{}%
      {\string\indexentry{#1}{\thesubsection}}
    \endgroup
  \@esphack}
\makeindex

\renewcommand{\thesection}{\arabic{section}}
\renewcommand{\thesubsection}{\arabic{section}\arabic{subsection}}

\begin{document}

\section{Section} This is Section 1
\subsection{Subsection} This is Subsection 1.1 \index{My Subsection}

\printindex
\end{document}

If I instead do \renewcommand{\thesubsection}{\arabic{section}.\arabic{subsection}, then the index will not print. I have seen workarounds such as this one, but this method only works for up to 9 subsections. How can I have the index print section.subsection?

mtutor
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  • makeindex does not understand the . in the index entry –  Feb 08 '17 at 18:11
  • See also http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/298519/using-imakeidx-with-custom-page-numbering/352559#352559 –  Feb 08 '17 at 18:14
  • That makes sense. Is there a way to either change \thesubsection into a form that makeindex does understand? Or a way to change what makeindex can understand? – mtutor Feb 08 '17 at 18:15
  • See my answer below –  Feb 08 '17 at 18:27

1 Answers1

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The page_compositor key is responsible how makeindex interpretes the 'numbers' it reads and sorts accordingly.

By defining a new index style file, say subsection.ist this can be used to change the key to ., for example. 

\documentclass[rmp]{revtex4-1}
\usepackage{makeidx}

\makeatletter
  \def\@wrindex#1{%
    \protected@write\@indexfile{}%
      {\string\indexentry{#1}{\thesubsection}}
    \endgroup
  \@esphack}
\makeindex

\renewcommand{\thesection}{\arabic{section}}
\renewcommand{\thesubsection}{\arabic{section}.\arabic{subsection}}


\begin{filecontents}{subsection.ist}
page_precedence "nrRAa"
page_compositor "."
\end{filecontents}


\usepackage{pgffor}



\begin{document}

\section{Section} This is Section 1
\foreach \x in {1,...,20} {%
\clearpage
\subsection{Subsection \x} \index{My Subsection}
}

\section{Section} This is Section 1
\foreach \x in {1,...,20} {%
\clearpage
\subsection{Subsection \x} \index{My Subsection}
}


\printindex
\end{document}

Call makeindex -s subsection.ist foo, if foo.tex is the name of the .tex document.

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    Please note that makeindex is limited in it's parsing and sorting features. xindy is by far more elaborate –  Feb 08 '17 at 18:31