Hi,
First, a minor bug: xindy refuses to accept filenames starting
with a dot, as filenames with raw index. E.g.:
$ xindy -o .qq2 somefile.xdy .qq1
This is `xindy' version 2.0 (i386-linux-glibc2 binary version 2.0).
Reading indexstyle...
Loading module "somefile.xdy"...
...
Finished reading indexstyle.
Finalizing indexstyle... (done)
Reading raw-index ".qq1"...
ERROR: no file name given: #P"/tmp/0/.qq1"
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Second, could you please help with the following question.
Is it possible to set up markup rules in such a way that
the markup of an index entry of depth n will depend on
whether there are entries of depth n+1?
For example, the texindex program (which is part of texinfo)
supports the following (following is a comment from texinfo.tex):
% The index entry written in the file actually looks like
% \entry {sortstring}{page}{topic}
% or
% \entry {sortstring}{page}{topic}{subtopic}
% The texindex program reads in these files and writes files
% containing these kinds of lines:
% \initial {c}
% before the first topic whose initial is c
% \entry {topic}{pagelist}
% for a topic that is used without subtopics
% \primary {topic}
% for the beginning of a topic that is used with subtopics
% \secondary {subtopic}{pagelist}
% for each subtopic.
Could this behavior be emulated with xindy?
I.e., if there is only an entry with depth 0, xindy should generate
a markup of the form
\entry {topic}{pagelist}
But if there are also entries with depth 1, xindy should generate
a markup of the form
\primary {topic}
\secondary {subtopic}{pagelist}
\secondary {subtopic}{pagelist}
...
Best,
v.