Return-Path: Received: from proof.ergo.cs.cmu.edu by K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa01771; 9 Jul 90 19:12:23 EDT Received: from proof.ergo.cs.cmu.edu by PROOF.ERGO.CS.CMU.EDU id aa15398; 9 Jul 90 19:11:58 EDT To: bovik@PROOF.ERGO.CS.CMU.EDU Subject: texindex Date: Mon, 09 Jul 90 19:11:55 EDT Message-ID: <15396.647565115@PROOF.ERGO.CS.CMU.EDU> From: Timothy.Freeman@PROOF.ERGO.CS.CMU.EDU Here's all the stuff from my archives about persuading TeX to do indices. They're kinda old. I have a version of texindex I hacked to deal with indexing mathematical symbols in /afs/cs/user/tsf/texindex, but I haven't run it in a long time, and it may very well be subsumed by one of the programs mentioned to below. I'm forwarding this to Bovik, so hopefully people will be able to find this in the future. 14-Feb-87 15:10 Roberto.Minio Re: index answer From: Roberto.Minio@theory.cs.cmu.edu As it stands, use of the \makeindex and \index commands cause LaTeX to produce an unsorted index "foo.idx". Generally, you don't want this at the back of your document, but in case you do want to print it out for some reason you can use "idx.tex", by hand, as explained in the Local Guide. The idx file is just the raw material of an index and still needs processing by machine and/or (usually "and") human to get it into some reasonable shape. LaTeX does not provide this. There seem to be a number of programs out there to help with this. One you can try is in /../e/usr/misc/.tex/src/texindex/* It does the sorting and a bit more, preparing from the foo.idx file a two-level index foo-index.tex that you can just input to latex at the end of your document with: \include{foo-index} There are other such programs/shell scripts that I don't know anything about. Some are available by anonymous ftp from uw-ward. Among them: IDX-INDEX.SH.1 NEWIDX.SH.1 IDX-INDEX.SH.1 INDEX-CITE.SH.3 LATEX-INDEX.SH.1 The current version of the Local Guide for LaTeX is kept in tex's default input area/usr/misc/.tex/lib/macros/local.tex . This ensures that it can be printed out by simply saying latex local dvidover local Date: Thu, 12 Oct 89 08:31:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Meyer To: bb-tex@pt.cs.cmu.edu Subject: Index & Biblio (Was: Tex Indexes) In-Reply-To: References: Folks: There are two tex tools in the andrew tree that might be helpful. Texidx is a stallman tool for creating TeX indices. It is in /afs/andrew/@sys/usr/local/lib/tex/bin/texidx with a man page in /afs/andrew/@sys/usr/local/lib/tex/man. Makeindex is available in the same places. There is also a TeX preprocessor called tib which allows for very flexible bibliographies. Many people who have "unusual" requirements in the format of bibliographies have found that tib was able to help. Again the man page is in /afs/andrew/@sys/usr/local/lib/tex/man, with the executables in /afs/andrew/@sys/usr/local/lib/tex/bin. --Mike Meyer