The make-rules package contains:

1. A Perl script to transform a description of a (language-specific) alphabet into a set of sorting rules for xindy. Alphabets for some languages are already provided (PDF, 209 KB):

   • Albanian
   • Belarusian
   • Bulgarian
   • Croatian
   • Czech
   • Danish
   • English
   • Esperanto
   • Finnish
   • French
   • Georgian
   • German (also Braille alphabet)
   • Greek (also ISO transliteration)
   • Gypsy (North-Russian dialect)
   • Hausa
   • Hungarian
   • Icelandic
   • Italian
   • Klingon (yes, we can handle fictional languages too ;-)
   • Kurdish (two variants which write the 'i' differently)
   • Latin
   • Latvian
   • Lithuanian
   • Lower Sorbian
   • Macedonian
   • Mongolian
   • Norwegian
   • Polish
   • Portuguese
   • Romanian
   • Russian (also ISO 9 transliteration)
   • Serbian
   • Slovak
   • Slovenian
   • Spanish
   • Swedish
   • Turkish
   • Ukrainian
   • Upper Sorbian
   • Vietnamese

2. A Perl script to generate sets of rules which are needed in combination with the LaTeX inputenc package.

3. Xorty: a package (raw filter + style file) to turn xindy into a simple sort program for text files with one entry on each line, i.e. provide the functionality of the Unix command sequence sort | uniq.

Requirements:

• TeX and LaTeX
• Perl 5 or higher
• GNU make or an equivalent make program
• If your favourite character set is not yet supported: iconv
• xindy 2.0 or higher