Hi Joergen, > For years I have been using my own index processor for processing my > LaTeX indexes. It is certainly not very advanced or flexible, but it > has one great advantage: it knows the Danish sorting rules. > But now it seems that I should switch to xindy! Indeed, xindy has been developed to overcome many of the language-specific problems with makeindex, and we are currently exploring further enhancements for international support. > But as were are using DOS computers here at my department, the > crucial question is: is someone porting xindy to DOS ? > (or, since the homepage text hints that the answer is no, maybe I > should ask: how difficult is it to make a DOS version?) We have no working port to DOS, yet. The problem is that xindy is mostly written in Lisp with some parts implemented in C for performance reasons. The implementation was done on UNIX boxes first, but with the other platforms in mind. The Lisp we use runs on DOS as well, this is why we have chosen it. The OS/2 port is finished and will be shipped out next week, hopefully. As far as I know, OS/2 supports cross-compiling to DOS and Windows to some extend and I think that based on our experience with OS/2 there seem to be few problems with a port which will require a 32bit extender in all cases, thus from i386 upwards. You are the second one asking for a DOS-port and I'm still looking for people doing this port. Anybody who has already ported UNIX-software to DOS using the GNU C compiler will be able to do the port in one or two days with help from me and probably the OS/2 coordinator Joerg Diederich. The OS/2 port took a little bit longer, but Joerg has done a good piece of work. So if there are any volunteers in your department, tell me :) I personally will not be able to do so, since I'm not experienced in DOS-programming and have not enough resources to do so (we started a first attempt at the German TeX conference and it looked promising, though we had to stop it due to lack of time). Only a machine with enough memory (let's say 16MB) is needed to do the port. I think it's worth the effort and the system itself has already reached a very stable state and only few problems have been reported so far, thus it's ready for use. Best regards Roger -- ====================================================================== Roger Kehr kehr@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de Computer Science Department Technical University of Darmstadt