[scribus-dev] makeindex etc.

[Gregory Pittman]

On 07/04/2014 02:51 AM, Craig Bradney wrote:
>>
>> 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.
> 
>From what I could tell, makeindex is dependent on inserting markup into
your document, which to me seems almost like having to do the index
manually in a sense.

Greg