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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2014-11-13 16:24:33 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2014-11-13 16:24:33 +0000
commit45a71fe6cd1a1a40ec5db29ad04dc081ec69b6b4 (patch)
tree46b68b5d1fbbc57d3b28c2d206f41fab3803c43c /Build/source/texk/makeindexk/makeindex.1
parentbadfe9e1ae6bc0e3a5cf82ba8223aa2de074ff00 (diff)
update makeindex documentation for new directives heading/numhead/symhead/etc.
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diff --git a/Build/source/texk/makeindexk/makeindex.1 b/Build/source/texk/makeindexk/makeindex.1
index 92d641b32d3..eb2efeb226d 100644
--- a/Build/source/texk/makeindexk/makeindex.1
+++ b/Build/source/texk/makeindexk/makeindex.1
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
.if t .ds Uc \fIU\\h'-0.12m'C\\v'0.27m'\\h'-.23m'S\\h'-0.11m'F\\v'-0.27m'\fP
.if n .ds Uc UCSF
.ds Et \\f(boE\\h'-0.1667m'\\v'-0.20v'T\\v'0.20v'\\h'-0.125m'T\\fP
-.TH MAKEINDEX 1 "24 September 2011" "TeX Live" "TeX Live"
+.TH MAKEINDEX 1 "12 November 2014" "TeX Live" "TeX Live"
.\"=====================================================================
.SH NAME
makeindex \- a general purpose, formatter-independent index processor
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ does
automate the process of selecting these words. As the output index
is hierarchical,
.I makeindex
-can be considered complimentary to the
+can be considered complementary to the
.IR awk (1)-based
.IR make.index (1L)
system of Bentley and Kernighan, which is specific to
@@ -361,7 +361,13 @@ inserted (default is 0, which produces no header).
.BR heading_prefix " <string>"
""
.RS
-Header prefix to be inserted before a new letter begins.
+Letter heading prefix to be inserted before a new letter begins.
+.RE
+.TP
+.BR heading_suffix " <string>"
+""
+.RS
+Letter heading suffix to be inserted when a new letter begins.
.RE
.TP
.BR symhead_positive " <string>"
@@ -501,6 +507,13 @@ number.
Suffix for the command which encapsulates the page number.
.RE
.TP
+.BR page_precedence " <string>"
+"rnaRA".
+.RS
+Page type precedence order. The default specifies: lowercase roman,
+numeric/arabic, lowercase alphabetic, uppercase roman, uppercase alphabetic.
+.RE
+.TP
.BR line_max " <number>"
72
.RS
@@ -1143,7 +1156,7 @@ for this example looks like this:
.I makeindex
executable file
.TP
-.I $TEXMFMAIN/tex/plain/misc/idxmac.tex
+.I $TEXMFMAIN/tex/plain/makeindex/idxmac.tex
\*(TX macro file used by
.I makeindex
.TP
@@ -1195,13 +1208,13 @@ Palo Alto, California, USA.
Manual page extensively revised and corrected, and
.IR troff (1)
examples created by Rick P. C. Rodgers, UCSF School
-of Pharmacy <rodgers@cca.ucsf.edu>.
+of Pharmacy.
.\"=====================================================================
.SH ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
-Leslie Lamport contributed significantly to the design.
+Leslie Lamport contributed significantly to the design of MakeIndex.
Michael Harrison provided valuable comments and suggestions.
-Nelson Beebe improved on the portable version, and maintains the
-source distribution for the \*(TX Users Group.
+Nelson Beebe improved on the portable version, and maintained the
+source distribution for the \*(TX Users Group for many years.
Andreas Brosig contributed to the German word ordering.
The modification to the
.B \-ms
@@ -1214,3 +1227,8 @@ and
files in the
.I makeindex
source distribution record other contributions.
+.PP
+.I makeindex
+is currently maintained as part of the \*(TX Live
+distribution (http://tug.org/texlive); please send bug reports to
+tex-k@tug.org.