.\" Copyright (c) 1996,1997 Roger Kehr
.\" See section COPYING for conditions for redistribution
.TH xindy 1 "February 1997" "Roger Kehr" ""
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.SH NAME
xindy \- a fle\fBx\fPible \fBind\fPexing s\fBy\fPstem

.SH SYNOPSIS
.hy 0
.na
.TP
.B xindy
.RB "[\|" \-t "\|]"
.RB "[\|" \-l\ \fIlogfile\fP "\|]"
.RB "[\|" \-o\ \fIoutfile\fP "\|]"
.RB "[\|" \-f\ \fIfilterprog\fP "\|]"
.RB "[\|" \-L\ \fIn\fP "\|]"
.RB "[\|" \-v "\|]"
.I indexstyle rawindex

.SH DESCRIPTION
.B xindy
is a general purpose index processor.

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B "\-o \fIoutfile"
Writes the tagged index to the specified file. If omitted, the name of
the \fIrawindex\fP is used with its extension changed to \fB.ind\fP.

.TP
.B "\-l \fIlogfile"
Writes logging information into the specified file.

.TP
.B "\-f \fInfilterprog"
Run \fIfilterprog\fP on \fIrawindex\fP before reading. The program
must act as a filter reading from stdin and writing to stdout.

.TP
.B "\-L \fIn"
Sets the logging level to \fIn\fI with  \fIn\fI one of {1,2,3}

.TP
.B "\-t"
Activates the \fBmarkup-trace\fP function. Writes symbolic
markup-tags to the final index which can be used to trace the markup
process.

.TP
.B \-v
Display the version number.

.TP
.B \-help
Show a summary of the command-line options.

.SH "SEE ALSO"
tex2xindy(1L),
makeindex(1L),
makeindex4(1L)

For detailed information about the format of the \fIindexstyle\fP and
the \fIrawindex\fP refer to the documentation that comes with \fBxindy\fP.

.SH "AUTHOR"
Roger Kehr, Institut fuer Theoretische Informatik, TH-Darmstadt

.SH COPYING
Copyright (c) 1996,1997 Roger Kehr.
.PP
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
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are preserved on all copies.
.PP
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manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the
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permission notice identical to this one.
.PP
Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
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