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NAME
texindy - create sorted and tagged index from raw LaTeX index
SYNOPSIS
texindy [-V?h] [-qv] [-iglr] [-d magic] [-o outfile.ind] [-t log] \
[-L lang] [-C codepage] [-M module] [idx0 idx1 ...]
GNU-Style Long Options for Short Options:
-V / --version
-? / -h / --help
-q / --quiet
-v / --verbose
-i / --stdin
-g / --german
-l / --letter-ordering
-r / --no-ranges
-d / --debug (multiple times)
-o / --out-file
-t / --log-file
-L / --language
-C / --codepage
-M / --module (multiple times)
-I / --input-markup (supported: latex, omega)
DESCRIPTION
texindy is the LaTeX-specific 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 modules, with a convenient set already preloaded.
Files with the raw index are passed as arguments. If no arguments are passed, the raw
index will be read from standard input.
A good introductionary description of texindy appears in the indexing chapter of the LaTeX
Companion (2nd ed.)
If you want to produce an index for LaTeX documents with special index markup, the command
xindy(1) is probably more of interest for you.
texindy is an approach to merge support for the make-rules framework, own xindy modules
(e.g., for special LaTeX commands in the index), and a reasonable level of MakeIndex
compatibility. There are other older approaches, eventually they will get a description on
the xindy Web Site, http://www.xindy.org/.
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", a xindy module for that language
is searched with a latin, a cp, an iso, or ascii encoding, in that order.
"--codepage" enc / B <-C> enc
The raw input is in input encoding enc. This information is used to select the correct
xindy sort module and also the inputenc target encoding for "latex" input markup.
When "omega" input markup is used, "utf8" is always used as the sort codepage and no
inputenc module is loaded. Then this option is ignored.
"--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"
and "omega".
"latex" 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. Usage of LaTeX's inputenc package is assumed as well.
"omega" input markup is like "latex" input markup, but with Omega's ^^-notation as
encoding for non-ASCII characters. LaTeX inputenc encoding is not used then, and
"utf8" is enforced to be the codepage for sorting.
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, "ae" 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 >
TEXINDY STANDARD MODULES
There is a set of texindy standard modules that help to process LaTeX index files. Some of
them are automatically loaded. Some of them are loaded by default, this can be turned off
with a texindy option. Others may be specified as "--module" argument to achieve a
specific effect.
xindy Module Category Description
Sorting
word-order Default A space comes before any letter in the
alphabet: ``index style'' is listed before
``indexing''. Turn it off with option -l.
letter-order Add-on Spaces are ignored: ``index style''
is sorted after ``indexing''.
keep-blanks Add-on Leading and trailing white space (blanks
and tabs) are not ignored; intermediate
white space is not changed.
ignore-hyphen Add-on Hyphens are ignored:
``ad-hoc'' is sorted as ``adhoc''.
ignore-punctuation Add-on All kinds of punctuation characters are
ignored: hyphens, periods, commas, slashes,
parentheses, and so on.
numeric-sort Auto Numbers are sorted numerically, not like
characters: ``V64'' appears before ``V128''.
Page Numbers
page-ranges Default Appearances on more than two consecutive
pages are listed as a range: ``1--4''.
Turn it off with option -r.
ff-ranges Add-on Uses implicit ``ff'' notation for ranges
of three pages, and explicit ranges
thereafter: 2f, 2ff, 2--6.
ff-ranges-only Add-on Uses only implicit ranges: 2f, 2ff.
book-order Add-on Sorts page numbers with common book numbering
scheme correctly -- Roman numerals first, then
Arabic numbers, then others: i, 1, A.
Markup and Layout
tex Auto Handles basic TeX conventions.
latex-loc-fmts Auto Provides LaTeX formatting commands
for page number encapsulation.
latex Auto Handles LaTeX conventions, both in raw
index entries and output markup; implies
tex.
makeindex Auto Emulates the default MakeIndex input syntax
and quoting behavior.
latin-lettergroups Auto Layout contains a single Latin letter
above each group of words starting with the
same letter.
german-sty Add-on Handles umlaut markup of babel's german
and ngerman options.
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. In particular,
this means that by default the LaTeX package "hyperref" will create raw index files
that cannot be processed with xindy. This is not a bug, this is the unfortunate result
of an intented incompatibility. It is currently not possible to get both hyperref's
index links and use xindy.
A similar 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.
· 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.
ENVIRONMENT
"TEXINDY_AUTO_MODULE"
This is the name of the xindy module that loads all auto-loaded modules. The default
is "texindy".
AUTHOR
Joachim Schrod
LEGALESE
texindy 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.