Hi Denis,
when you use latin1 characters like â instead of the more
TeX-like notation \^a in your TeX source to produce diacritical signs
there seems to be a problem with xindy.sty. The contents of your
raw index (.idx) is not properly quoted c.
You get
(indexentry :tkey (("b\^ateau"))
:locref "1")
instead of
(indexentry :tkey (("b\\\^ateau"))
:locref "1")
which would be correct.
In my opinion there are three possible solutions to get out of that
pitfall:
1. Fix xindy.sty to get the correct quoting.
I must admit, that I do not really know how to do that. The
style xindy.sty contains to much low-level-TeX-voodoo. That's
far beyond my personal knowledge.
2. Use the clumsy TeX-notation for your diacrites.
3. Adjust the quoting in your raw index.
To do that, I wrote a little C program 'quote.c' a long time ago.
I've appended the source. Usage:
- compile the source: cc -o quote quote.c
- start xindy with the command line:
xindy -f quote -o foo.ind fmakeidx.xdy foo.idx
Warning: There is a bug in the xindy Perl script. Please change
$rawindex to $Rawidx.
bye,
Joerg Diederich
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/* Program quote.c to adjust quoting in raw indices */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
main ()
{
int c;
int doubleSlash;
doubleSlash = 0;
while (!((c = getchar()) == EOF))
{
if( doubleSlash )
{
switch( c ) {
case '\\' : break;
case '"' : break;
default : putchar('\\');
}
}
putchar(c);
if( c == '\\' && !doubleSlash ) { doubleSlash = 1; } else { doubleSlash = 0; }
}
if (ferror(stdin) || ferror(stdout))
{ exit(1); }
else
{ exit(0); }
}
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"Denis B. Roegel" <Denis.Roegel@loria.fr> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I want to start using xindy and I am running into basic alphabet
> problems. I am using xindy with xindy.sty and the example style makeidx.sty
> where I added (require "tex/isolatin1m.xdy"). I have also set the variable
> XINDY_SEARCHPATH to .:/usr/local/tex/texmf/xindy.
>
> Now, with the input file
>
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
> \usepackage{makeidx}
> \usepackage{xindy}
>
> \makeindex
>
> \begin{document}
>
> xx
>
> \indexindy{avion}
> \indexindy{bâteau}
> \indexindy{barre}
> \indexindy{camelot}
> \indexindy{éthiopien}
> \indexindy{envie}
> \indexindy{exact}
> \indexindy{métrique}
>
> \printindex
>
> \end{document}
>
> I get an .idx file looking like
>
> (indexentry :tkey (("avion"))
> :locref "1")
> (indexentry :tkey (("b\^ateau"))
> :locref "1")
> (indexentry :tkey (("barre"))
> :locref "1")
> (indexentry :tkey (("camelot"))
> :locref "1")
> (indexentry :tkey (("\'ethiopien"))
> :locref "1")
> (indexentry :tkey (("envie"))
> :locref "1")
> (indexentry :tkey (("exact"))
> :locref "1")
> (indexentry :tkey (("m\'etrique"))
> :locref "1")
>
>
> which when processed with fmakeidx.xdy (makeidx.xdy + (require "tex/isolatin1m.xd
> y"))
> gives
>
>
> \begin{theindex}
>
> \item 'ethiopien, 1
>
> \indexspace
>
> \item avion, 1
>
> \indexspace
>
> \item b^ateau, 1
> \item barre, 1
>
> \indexspace
>
> \item camelot, 1
>
> \indexspace
>
> \item envie, 1
> \item exact, 1
>
> \indexspace
>
> \item m'etrique, 1
>
> \end{theindex}
>
>
> and this is not good, since I want at least to have \'ethiopien, b\^ateau, etc.,
> not to speak about the sorting order which I have not yet included.
>
> There are no errors when processing the file with xindy.
>
> What did I do wrong or forget?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Denis Roegel