XINDY FAQ

Or: xindy by Topic

Roger Kehr

Computer Science Department, Technical University of Darmstadt

Joachim Schrod

Joachim Schrod Net & Publication Consultance GmbH

1. General Questions

• 1.1 Why a completely new indexing tool? makeindex works fine!
• 1.2 I'm an old makeindex wizard. What does xindy offer that makeindex doesn't?
• 1.3 What is tex2xindy?
• 1.4 What editor should I use when writing xindy style files?

2. xindy Usage

• 2.1 I don't want to write style files. How can I proceed?
• 2.2 How do I use makeindex4?
• 2.3 How works makeindex4?

3. xindy and LaTeX

• 3.1 What LaTeX-package should I use in conjunction with xindy?

4. Style Files

• 4.1 Eventually, I decided to write my first index style. How can I start?
• 4.2 How to write my first index style?
• 4.3 How works the actual key feature of makeindex with xindy?
• 4.4 I want to process an index for my native language. What must I do?
• 4.5 In my index the capitalized words appear after the lowercase words. Why?
• 4.6 In my index there are no letter groups, yet!
• 4.7 How can I get rid of any formatting information in the keyword?
• 4.8 In my index the word -foo appears before bar. What must I do?
• 4.9 I want to use letter ordering instead of word ordering in my index.
• 4.10 My document does not have page numbers, but a different scheme. What must I do?
• 4.11 I don't want to have ranges in my index. What can I do?
• 4.12 I want to markup ranges of different length differently. How do I accomplish this?
• 4.13 I need to suppress some of the markup tags. How can I do this?
• 4.14 Whats it all about those cross references?
• 4.15 The keyword mappings don't work as expected!
• 4.16 I'm totally confused by the markup scheme!