[scribus-dev] makeindex etc.

john Culleton John at wexfordpress.com
Sat Jul 12 14:24:23 UTC 2014


On Thu, 3 Jul 2014 16:57:29 -0400
john Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 

If it helps I have downloaded the source of
Makeindex including the Makefile etc. It is in C
but will compile with c++.

Tell me where I should send the zip file for
inspection by others.

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