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-<H2><A NAME="s1">1. About <SF>xindy</SF></A></H2>
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-<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 &Agrave;,
-&Aacute;, &ntilde;. Other languages from northern Europe have letters
-like &Auml;, &Oslash;, &aelig; or &szlig; 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.
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