Creating an Index of Persons with references

Question

I would like to create an index of persons. I have used the nameauth package and I am working in a memoir class. I did not manage to completely obtain the results I want. I have also tried to fiddle around with glossaries and imakeidx, but to be honest I am not so good at customization.

What I am trying to do:

• Forward referencing to the names in the index, preferably with a simple command as in my MWE. The nameauth package is missing forward references, although it does do correct backwards references.
• A description field for the index only. Preferably life dates included in the first occurrence of the name, but not the rest of the description. In my MWE I have tried to circumvent the problem by putting it in the "affix" part, but this is of course not satisfactory.
• In my MWE there is a small problem of spacing after the command of a name is being used. How do I solve this?
• Lastly, I want to have hyperrefs in the descriptions in the index, i.e.

MWE of what I have now:

    \documentclass[a4paper,oneside]{memoir}
    \usepackage{geometry}

    \usepackage{nameauth}
    \usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref} % For hyperlinks in the PDF

    \makeindex
    \begin{document}
    \pagestyle{plain}

    \begin{nameauth}
    \< Bosscha     & Johannes  & Bosscha, Jr. (1831-1911)  & >
    \< BosschaSr   & Johannes  & Bosscha, Sr. (1784-1874)  & >
    \< Someone     & Mister    & Someone, (1812-1911) & >
    \end{nameauth}

    \chapter{test}
    And I want to test \Bosscha, or either is it \BosschaSr. So the second 
    time it is called we get: \Bosscha and \BosschaSr. Another test is
    \Someone and \Name[Mister]{Someone2}{ (1812-1911), and some text}.
    Lastly, I could try a manual \href{www.google.nl}{\Bosscha (1831-1911)},
    although I'm not sure this is a solution to my problem.

    \printindex
    \end{document}

What I want to achieve:

In text first occurrence [in smallcaps]:

Johannes van Bosscha Jr. (1831-1911) was born in etc.

This is going correct. I would like to change the later occurrences to smallcaps:

In his later life, Van Bosscha Jr. did such and such.

In the index:

Bosscha, Johannes van, Jr. (1831-1911), description of person, p. 1, 3, 5.

Where somewhere I have a hyperlink inside.

The nameauth partly already has what I need concerning ordering and backreferences, but I lack the freedom to edit the part inside the index for the description and hyperreferences and there is no forward referencing. How can I solve this?

Answer 1

Here's an example using the acro and (for convenience) the imakeidx package. acro requires a pretty verbose acronym setup for each one because of all the bells and whistles you want, but the package offers many customizable features.

\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\makeindex
\usepackage{acro}
\acsetup{
  first-style=long, page-style=plain, index,
  activate-trailing-tokens = {dot}
}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\DeclareAcronym{bosscha}{
  % Appearance in text
  short =     {Van Bosscha Jr\acdot},
  long =      {Johannes van Bosscha Jr\acdot},
  long-post = {\space (1831--1911)},
  first-long-format = {\scshape},
  short-plural = , long-plural = ,
  % Appearance in \printacronyms
  extra =     {(1831--1911)},
  sort =      {Van Bosscha, Johannes, Jr.},
  list =      {\href{www.google.com}{Van Bosscha, Johannes, Jr}},
  % Appearance in index
  index =     {\href{www.google.com}{Van Bosscha, Johannes, Jr.} (1831--1911)},
}

\DeclareAcronym{bosschasr}{
  short =     {Van Bosscha Sr\acdot},
  long =      {Maior van Bosscha Sr\acdot},
  long-post = {\space (1700--1831)},
  first-long-format = {\scshape},
  extra =     {(1700--1831)},
  sort =      {Van Bosscha, Maior, Sr},
  list =      {\href{www.yahoo.com}{Van Bosscha, Johannes, Sr}},
  index =     {\href{www.yahoo.com}{Van Bosscha, Johannes, Sr.} (1700--1831)},
}

\begin{document}

\chapter{Test}
And I want to test \ac{bosscha}, or either is it \ac{bosschasr}. So
the second time it is called we get: \ac{bosscha} and \ac{bosschasr}.
% Another test is \Someone and \Name[Mister]{Someone2}{ (1812-1911),
% and some text}.  Lastly, I could try a manual
% \href{www.google.nl}{\Bosscha (1831-1911)}, although I'm not sure
% this is a solution to my problem.

\clearpage

And I want to test \ac{bosscha}, or either is it \ac{bosschasr}. So
the second time it is called we get: \ac{bosscha} and \ac{bosschasr}.

\printacronyms[name=Persons of Interest]

\printindex

\end{document}

Here I've included the \printacronyms command just so you can compare it to the indexed output. (Note that the author of acro is not convinced that indexing is a useful feature, and asks for an email if you do like this option and notice any issues.)

Answer 2

As of April 2017 the nameauth package will do most of what you asked for, except for the hyperlinks. I'm afraid that this functionality would have to wait for a future horizon.

For simplicity I did not set up the name as "Van Bosscha," as the subsequent material would suggest. There are a few different ways to do that, depending on language needs as the package docs also suggest. US English puts the particle in the surname, e.g., \noexpand\textSC{\noexpand\AltCaps{v}an Bosscha}. Other contexts leave the particle separate, either in the FNN field or alternate names field, depending on what one wants in the index. I stuck with a modified version of your MWE below, which shows roughly what one can expect currently from nameauth 3.2:

\documentclass[a4paper,oneside]{memoir}
\usepackage{geometry}

\usepackage[altformat]{nameauth}

\PretagName[Johannes]{\noexpand\textSC{Bosscha},\noexpand\textSC{Jr.}}
  {Bosscha, Johannes, Jr.}
\PretagName[Johannes]{\noexpand\textSC{Bosscha},\noexpand\textSC{Sr.}}
  {Bosscha, Johannes, Sr.}

\NameAddInfo[Johannes]{\noexpand\textSC{Bosscha},\noexpand\textSC{Jr.}}
  {(1831--1911)}
\NameAddInfo[Johannes]{\noexpand\textSC{Bosscha},\noexpand\textSC{Sr.}}
  {(1784--1874)}

\TagName[Johannes]{\noexpand\textSC{Bosscha},\noexpand\textSC{Jr.}}
  { (1831--1911)}
\TagName[Johannes]{\noexpand\textSC{Bosscha},\noexpand\textSC{Sr.}}
  { (1784--1874)}

\makeatletter % I should put the nonbreaking space below in the pkg docs
\renewcommand*\NamesFormat[1]{\begingroup%
\protected@edef\temp{\endgroup{#1~%
\noexpand\NameQueryInfo[\unexpanded\expandafter{\the\@nameauth@toksa}]
{\unexpanded\expandafter{\the\@nameauth@toksb}}
[\unexpanded\expandafter{\the\@nameauth@toksc}]}}\temp}
\makeatother

\renewcommand*\MainNameHook{\AltOn}

\begin{nameauth}
\< Bosscha   & Johannes & \noexpand\textSC{Bosscha},\noexpand\textSC{Jr.} & >
\< BosschaSr & Johannes & \noexpand\textSC{Bosscha},\noexpand\textSC{Sr.} & >
\end{nameauth}

\makeindex
\begin{document}
\AltFormatActive*
\pagestyle{plain}

\chapter{test}

I want to test \Bosscha, or either is it \BosschaSr{}.

We actually have to frustrate the punctuation detection
when adding a text tag here. I will explain this in the
docs for the next version.

The second time it is called we get: \Bosscha\ and \BosschaSr.
Again \KeepAffix\LBosscha\ and \LBosschaSr.
We can force the formatting via \ForceName\Bosscha\ and
\ForceName\BosschaSr, which is not the same as
\ForgetThis\Bosscha\ and \ForgetThis\BosschaSr{}.

\printindex
\end{document}