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diff --git a/macros/plain/formats/texsis/index/README b/macros/plain/formats/texsis/index/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..82f8481a2e --- /dev/null +++ b/macros/plain/formats/texsis/index/README @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +index.tex -- Macros for creating an index using MakeIndex + + The file index.tex contains a set of Plain TeX macros for making an +index for a document. The raw index output file produced by the macros +is in a form which can be fed to the makeindex program. The output from +makeindex can then be fed back through TeX with the formatting macros +(which are also in index.tex) to produce the final formatted index. For +further information see the file itself. + + The file makeindex.tar.gz is a compressed tar file containing the +standard distribution of the makeindex program. You can also get +makeindex from CTAN:indexing/makeindex. + + The file MakeIndex.ps contains a PostScript copy of the paper "Index +Preparation and Processing" by Pehong Chen and Michael A. Harrison which +describes the general workings of their makeindex program. + + It is possible to make the index from just the raw index file +and a sorting program (and a lot of "by-hand" work), but makeindex +really is the proper way to make a good index. + +Eric Myers <texsis@lifshitz.ph.utexas.edu> - 29 August 1997 |