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diff --git a/Build/source/utils/xindy-old/doc/style-tutorial-1.html b/Build/source/utils/xindy-old/doc/style-tutorial-1.html deleted file mode 100644 index 890b1ecd8b9..00000000000 --- a/Build/source/utils/xindy-old/doc/style-tutorial-1.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,92 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> -<HTML> -<HEAD> - <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9"> - <TITLE>XINDY Style File Tutorial: About xindy</TITLE> - <LINK HREF="style-tutorial-2.html" REL=next> - - <LINK HREF="style-tutorial.html#toc1" REL=contents> -</HEAD> -<BODY> -<A HREF="style-tutorial-2.html">Next</A> -Previous -<A HREF="style-tutorial.html#toc1">Contents</A> -<HR> -<H2><A NAME="s1">1. About <SF>xindy</SF></A></H2> - -<P><SF>xindy</SF> means fle<B>x</B>ible <B>ind</B>exing s<B>y</B>stem. It is an -indexing system that can be used to generate book-like indexes for -arbitrary document preparation systems. This term includes systems -such as TeX [1] and LaTeX [2], the Nroff-family -or SGML-based systems (e.g. HTML) that process some kind of text and -generate indexing information. It is not fixed to any specific system, -but can be configured for a wide variety of purposes. -<P>Authors sometimes wish to include an index into their document, but -very often their document preparation systems aren't able to produce -indexes on their own, or the capabilities of the built-in indexers are -insufficient and produce ugly looking results. More often they use -separate specialized tools for this purpose, sometimes called -<EM>index processors</EM>. -<P>In comparison to other index processors <SF>xindy</SF> has several -powerful features that make it an ideal framework for describing and -generating complex indexes. Its most interesting features are -<P> -<DL> -<P> -<DT><B>Internationality</B><DD><P><SF>xindy</SF> can be configured to process indexes -for many languages with different letter sets and different sorting -rules. For example, many roman languages such as Italian, French, -Portuguese or Spanish contain accentuated letters such as À, -Á, ñ. Other languages from northern Europe have letters -like Ä, Ø, æ or ß which often can't even be -processed by many index processors let alone sorting them correctly -into an index. The <SF>xindy</SF> system can be configured to process -these alphabets by defining <EM>sort</EM> and <EM>merge rules</EM> that allow -expressing language specific rules. One example of such a rule would -be -<P> -<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE> -<PRE> -(sort-rule "ä" "ae") -</PRE> -</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE> -<P>defining that a word containing the umlaut-a will be sorted as if it -contained the letters <CODE>ae</CODE> instead. This is one form of how the -umlaut-a ("ä") is sorted into german indexes. With an appropriate set -of rules on can express the complete rules of a specific language. -<P> -<DT><B>User Definable Location Types</B><DD><P>Locations are the entities an -index entry points to. Often used locations are <EM>page numbers</EM>, -<EM>section numbers</EM>, etc. <SF>xindy</SF> allows to define new kinds of -types to be composed of basic entities like arabic numbers, roman -numerals, letters, etc. which can be used to describe new index types. -Examples of these entities can be books that have a page numbering -scheme that starts from 1 for each new chapter resulting in page -numbers of the form <EM>1-13, 2-15, 2-20</EM>, etc. This type of locations -can often be found in computer manuals. A more complex structure is -represented by the locations <EM>Psalm 46, 1-8</EM> and <EM>Genesis 1, -31</EM>. Even the structure of bible verses can be described allowing -<SF>xindy</SF> to correctly sort and process indexes for documents with a -completely different structure. -<P> -<DT><B>Highly Configurable Markup</B><DD><P>Since a index processor is only one -component in a document preparation system it ought to fit smoothly -into the complete environment. Many text processing systems use the -concept of <EM>environments</EM> that can be used to describe the markup -of the text entities. Our approach is based on this concept which has -proved to be expressive enough for most applications. As an example -one can view systems such as TeX, SGML and its instance HTML, GNU -Info, RTF and the Nroff-familiy of document formatters. The markup of -an index can be defined for all of these systems in a very comfortable -though extremly powerful way. -<P> -</DL> -<P> -<P> -<P> -<HR> -<A HREF="style-tutorial-2.html">Next</A> -Previous -<A HREF="style-tutorial.html#toc1">Contents</A> -</BODY> -</HTML> |