a flexible indexing program for generating book-like indexes in TeX and LaTeX, the roff-family, SGML/XML-based systems
Questions tagged [xindy]
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Making and sorting index for Russian
Trying to make index with Russian words, MWE:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[T1, T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english,…
Alx
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Xindy not working with MiKTeX
I have just followed the method of Speravir (see How to use Xindy with MiKTeX?). My MiKTeX installation is D:\MiKTeX 2.9, and I already had a D:\LocalTeXMF for files that are not in the distribution. Unfortunately, trying to test with the example…
Bernard
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Transfer a makeindex example to a xindy example
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…
Thomas F. Sturm
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Xindy doesn't sort keywords properly
I am preparing an index with entries that use the International Phonetic Alphabet (which largely consists of lowercase Latin letters, but with additions. I have specified my desired sort order in an .xdy file. When xindy prepares the index, the…
adam.baker
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xindy: merge-rule to ignore leading numbers
I use texindy to generate an index.
There are several indexed terms with a leading number. I want these terms to be sorted as if the leading numbers weren't there. This I attempted to achieve with the following merge-rule in my xindy…
igneus
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xindy, splitindex and attributes
@Nicola-Talbot managed to solve my last question:
Makeindex, different kinds of references and collation in the index
Unfortunately I don't succeed to carry this solution beyond splitindex.
This was the premise:
Consider an index with three…
Martin Mueller
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Xindy, entries spanning multiple pages and ranges
I try to implement the authors of sections into the index of my book. To achieve this each section starts with an index entry with opening parenthesis and ends with a closing one. But I cannot get rid of the error-message:
WARNING: Found no…
Martin Mueller
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xindy no lettergroup in the index
I am using a normal English index with xindy, but I would like to get rid of the Lettergroups at the beginnings of the each group. I was able to work with .ist before, but it does not work with xindy, and searching online I have not found the way to…
Roberto Gozzoli
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Index of bible verses with xindy
I am typesetting a book that will have 4 (or possibly more) indices (for which I am using splitindex), one of which will be an index of bible verses.
This index is to be ordered by the order of the biblical books and the entries are to be grouped…
dariok
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Normalized / sorted index entries with Xindy
I'm working on a an sorted name register produced by an external program with dozens of entries of one surname. To find the main pages easier I try to colorize it and played with different text styles (italic, bold).
Xindy seems to be the right…
Luis Potter
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xindy and location attribute priority
With this MWE idx file:
\indexentry{chat!sauvage}{1}
\indexentry{chat!sauvage}{2}
\indexentry{chat!sauvage}{3}
\indexentry{chat!sauvage|textbf}{3}
I obtain, with texindex -L french, the following line in the .ind file :
\subitem sauvage,…
Maïeul
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Xindy doesn't work: xindy.pl: input file xxx.acn doesnot exist
I want to use xindy for my glossaries. The command for calling xindy which I use is
xindy -L persian-variant1 -C utf8 -I xindy -M %.xdy -t %.glg -o %.gls %.glo | xindy -L persian-variant1 -C utf8 -I xindy -M %.xdy -t %.blg -o %.bls %.blo | xindy -L…
user85361
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general form of a xindy log file
I write a maven plugin for latex.
FOr glossaries I also want to support xindy besides the old fashioned makeindex.
The problem is, that I have to know from the log file,
how to detect warnings and errors.
This is quite simple for makeindex but I…
user2609605
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xindy not very obedient
It seems that xindy (xindy -L french) does not obey perfectly formed index commands for range.
When you want 28--29, you get 28, 29.
When you want 136, 137, 138--140, you get 136--140.
When you want 245--247, 248--250, you get 245--250.
I mean: …
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exotic error with xindy: "no slot named BASE:..."
I ran into the error when compiling the same files on a desktop and a laptop. I run XeTeX as part of MikTeX 2.9.
The MWE test2.tex is:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\makeindex
\begin{filecontents*}{test2.xdy}
(define-location-class…
François Velde
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