[scribus-dev] makeindex etc.

[Craig Bradney]

> On 4 Jul 2014, at 8:10, ale rimoldi <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote:
> 
> hi john and andreas
> 
>> Makeindex is a program that comes with the TeX
>> suite, but it is a stand-alone program. You feed
>> it the right input and it generates an index. It
>> takes care of sorting, combining and formatting
>> the output. I use it as the engine in my Tyro
>> stand alone indexing system written in tcl/tk.
>> 
>> The default output has a lot of LaTex code in
>> it. However makeindex can use a formatting file
>> with the suffix .ist that changes this output
>> behavior. Over the years I have used this file to
>> eliminate all the TeX specific code in the
>> output except for See and See also. but that is
>> not a big deal. A little editing of the output can
>> change seealso to See also in italics and delete
>> the string {99999} altogether.
> 
> on debian i don't think i can install makeindex without installing the
> full latex.
> i don't think that you can download it for windows or os x, either
> 
> but having had a look at the makeindex project page, it seems indeed
> possible to use it as a standalone software... i guess that we would
> have to add it to the scribus sources, then...
> 
> or expect the user to install the full latex package...
> 
> 
> 

Agree. I don't think we'll ever want to depend on that monster. 

I'm sure we can write our own indexing code, but using the idea from latex.

Craig