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NAME
xindy - create sorted and tagged index from raw index
SYNOPSIS
xindy [-V?h] [-qv] [-d magic] [-o outfile.ind] [-t log] \
[-L lang] [-C codepage] [-M module] [-I input] \
[--interactive] [--mem-file=xindy.mem] \
[idx0 idx1 ...]
GNU-Style Long Options for Short Options:
-V / --version
-? / -h / --help
-q / --quiet
-v / --verbose
-d / --debug (multiple times)
-o / --out-file
-t / --log-file
-L / --language
-C / --codepage
-M / --module (multiple times)
-I / --input-markup (supported: latex, xelatex, omega, xindy)
DESCRIPTION
xindy is the formatter-indepedent command of xindy, the flexible indexing system. It takes
a raw index as input, and produces a merged, sorted and tagged index. Merging, sorting,
and tagging is controlled by xindy style files.
Files with the raw index are passed as arguments. If no arguments are passed, the raw
index will be read from standard input.
xindy is completely described in its manual that you will find on its Web Site,
http://www.xindy.org/. A good introductionary description appears in the indexing chapter
of the LaTeX Companion (2nd ed.)
If you want to produce an index for LaTeX documents, the command texindy(1) is probably
more of interest for you. It is a wrapper for xindy that turns on many LaTeX conventions
by default.
OPTIONS
"--version" / -V
output version numbers of all relevant components and exit.
"--help" / -h / -?
output usage message with options explanation.
"--quiet" / -q
Don't output progress messages. Output only error messages.
"--verbose" / -v
Output verbose progress messages.
"--debug" magic / -d magic
Output debug messages, this option may be specified multiple times. magic determines
what is output:
magic remark
------------------------------------------------------------
script internal progress messages of driver scripts
keep_tmpfiles don't discard temporary files
markup output markup trace, as explained in xindy manual
level=n log level, n is 0 (default), 1, 2, or 3
"--out-file" outfile.ind / -o outfile.ind
Output index to file outfile.ind. If this option is not passed, the name of the output
file is the base name of the first argument and the file extension ind. If the raw
index is read from standard input, this option is mandatory.
"--log-file" log.ilg / -t log.ilg
Output log messages to file log.ilg. These log messages are independent from the
progress messages that you can influence with "--debug" or "--verbose".
"--language" lang / -L lang
The index is sorted according to the rules of language lang. These rules are encoded
in a xindy module created by make-rules.
If no input encoding is specified via "--codepage" or enforced by input markup, a
xindy module for that language is searched with a latin, a cp, an iso, ascii, or utf8
encoding, in that order.
Language modules are either placed in the lang or in the contrib/lang sub-directory of
the modules base directory.
"--codepage" enc / -C enc
The raw input is in input encoding enc. This information is used to select the correct
xindy sort module and output encoding of letter group headings.
When "xelatex" or "omega" input markup is used, "utf8" is always used as codepage,
then this option is ignored.
If raw input is in LICR, texindy(1) should be used instead of xindy(1). It will
activate a mapping of inputenc encoding for "latex" input markup to the chosen raw
input codepage.
"--module" module / -M module
Load the xindy module module.xdy. This option may be specified multiple times. The
modules are searched in the xindy search path that can be changed with the environment
variable "XINDY_SEARCHPATH".
"--input-markup" input / -I input
Specifies the input markup of the raw index. Supported values for input are "latex",
"xelatex", "omega", and "xindy".
"latex" and "xelatex" input markup is the one that is emitted by default from the
LaTeX kernel, or by the "index" macro package of David Jones. ^^-notation of single
byte characters is supported. Remapping of LICR-encoded characters is not done; use
texindy(1) for that. Use input markup "latex" if you use standard LaTeX or pdfLaTeX
and use input markup "xelatex" if you use XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX.
"omega" input markup is like "latex" input markup, but with Omega's ^^-notation as
encoding for non-ASCII characters.
"xindy" input markup is specified in the xindy manual.
"--interactive"
Start xindy in interactive mode. You will be in a xindy read-eval-loop where xindy
language expressions are read and evaluated interactively.
"--mem-file" xindy.mem
This option is only usable for developers or in very rare situations. The compiled
xindy kernel is stored in a so-called memory file, canonically named xindy.mem, and
located in the xindy library directory. This option allows to use another xindy
kernel.
SUPPORTED LANGUAGES / CODEPAGES
The following languages are supported:
Latin scripts
albanian gypsy portuguese
croatian hausa romanian
czech hungarian russian-iso
danish icelandic slovak-small
english italian slovak-large
esperanto kurdish-bedirxan slovenian
estonian kurdish-turkish spanish-modern
finnish latin spanish-traditional
french latvian swedish
general lithuanian turkish
german-din lower-sorbian upper-sorbian
german-duden norwegian vietnamese
greek-iso polish
German recognizes two different sorting schemes to handle umlauts: normally, "ä" is sorted
like "ae", but in phone books or dictionaries, it is sorted like "a". The first scheme is
known as DIN order, the second as Duden order.
"*-iso" language names assume that the raw index entries are in ISO 8859-9 encoding.
"gypsy" is a northern Russian dialect.
Cyrillic scripts
belarusian mongolian serbian
bulgarian russian ukrainian
macedonian
Other scripts
greek klingon
Available Codepages
This is not yet written. You can look them up in your xindy distribution, in the
modules/lang/language/ directory (where language is your language). They are named
variant-codepage-lang.xdy, where variant- is most often empty (for german, it's "din5007"
and "duden"; for spanish, it's "modern" and "traditional", etc.)
< Describe available codepages for each language >
< Describe relevance of codepages (as internal representation) for
LaTeX inputenc >
ENVIRONMENT
"XINDY_SEARCHPATH"
A list of directories where the xindy modules are searched in. No subtree searching is
done (as in TDS-conformant TeX).
If this environment variable is not set, the default is used:
".:"modules_dir":"modules_dir"/base". modules_dir is determined at run time, relative
to the xindy command location: Either it's ../modules, that's the case for
opt-installations. Or it's ../lib/xindy/modules, that's the case for
usr-installations.
"XINDY_LIBDIR"
Library directory where xindy.mem is located.
The modules directory may be a subdirectory, too.
COMPATIBILITY TO MAKEINDEX
xindy does not claim to be completely compatible with MakeIndex, that would prevent some
of its enhancements. That said, we strive to deliver as much compatibility as possible.
The most important incompatibilities are
• For raw index entries in LaTeX syntax, "\index{aaa|bbb}" is interpreted differently.
For MakeIndex "bbb" is markup that is output as a LaTeX tag for this page number. For
xindy, this is a location attribute, an abstract identifier that will be later
associated with markup that should be output for that attribute.
For straight-forward usage, when "bbb" is "textbf" or similar, we supply location
attribute definitions that mimic MakeIndex's behaviour.
For more complex usage, when "bbb" is not an identifier, no such compatibility
definitions exist and may also not been created with current xindy. Such a situation
is reported to exist for the "memoir" LaTeX class.
Programmers who know Common Lisp and Lex and want to work on a remedy should please
contact the author.
• If you have an index rage and a location attribute, e.g., "\index{key\(attr}" starts
the range, one needs (1) to specify that attribute in the range closing entry as well
(i.e., as "\index{key\)attr}") and (2) one needs to declare the index attribute in an
xindy style file.
MakeIndex will output the markup "\attr{page1--page2}" for such a construct. This is
not possible to achieve in xindy, output will be
"\attrMarkup{page1}--\attrMarkup{page2}". (This is actually considered a bug, but not
a high priority one.)
The difference between MakeIndex page number tags and xindy location attributes was
already explained in the previous item.
• The MakeIndex compatibility definitions support only the default raw index syntax and
markup definition. It is not possible to configure raw index parsing or use a
MakeIndex style file to describe output markup.
KNOWN ISSUES
Option -q also prevents output of error messages. Error messages should be output on
stderr, progress messages on stdout.
There should be a way to output the final index to stdout. This would imply -q, of course.
LaTeX raw index parsing should be configurable.
Codepage "utf8" should be supported for all languages, and should be used as internal
codepage for LaTeX inputenc re-encoding.
SEE ALSO
texindy(1), tex2xindy(1)
AUTHOR
Joachim Schrod
LEGALESE
Copyright (c) 2004-2014 by Joachim Schrod.
xindy is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
See the GNU General Public License for more details.