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xindy Manual

Roger Kehr, Computer Science Department, Darmstadt University of Technology

$Revision: 1.18 $, for xindy version 2.x, February 1998, minor changes $Date: 2004/01/08 19:16:53 $

This is the manual of the indexing system xindy. xindy is a powerful and flexible framework for generating indexes for many kinds of documents. This is Edition February 1998 and describes the features of xindy version 2.0. The most up-to-date version of this document can be obtained from the xindy Web Site at http://www.xindy.org/.

Index of all xindy commands

1. About this Manual

2. How the Index Processor Works

2.1 Data Flow
2.2 General Concepts and Terms

3. Command List

3.1 Processing Commands
3.2 Markup Commands
3.3 Raw Index Interface

4. Processing Phases

4.1 The Startup Phase
4.2 The Processing Phase
4.3 The Markup Phase

5. Invoking xindy

5.1 Command Line Options
5.2 Search Path

6. Index

7. References

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