\
makeindex
, \
index
and
\
printindex
command with a file name, and indexing commands are
written to (or read from) the name with the appropriate (.idx
or
.ind
) extension appended. The \
printindex
command is modified
from the LaTeX standard so that it doesn’t create its own chapter
or section heading; you therefore decide what names (or sectioning
level, even) to use for the indexes, and
\
indexname
is completely ignored.
To create a “general” and an “authors” index, one might write:
\usepackage{multind} \makeindex{general} \makeindex{authors} ... \index{authors}{Another Idiot} ... \index{general}{FAQs} ... \printindex{general}{General index} \printindex{authors}{Author index}
To complete the job, run LaTeX on your file enough times that labels, etc., are stable, and then execute the commands
makeindex general makeindex authors
before running LaTeX again. Note that the names of the index files to process are not necessarily related to the name of the LaTeX file you’re processing, at all. (There’s no documentation that comes with the package: what you see above is as good as you will get...)
The index package provides a comprehensive set of indexing facilities, including a\
newindex
command that allows the
definition of new styles of index. \
newindex
takes a ‘tag’ (for
use in indexing commands), replacements for the .idx
and
.ind
file extensions, and a title for the index when it’s
finally printed; it can also change the item that’s being indexed
against (for example, one might have an index of artists referenced by
the figure number where their work is shown).
Using index, to create an author index together with a
“normal” index, one would start with preamble commands:
\usepackage{index} \makeindex \newindex{aut}{adx}{and}{Name Index}
which load the package, define a “main” (original-style) index, and then define an author index. Then, in the body of the document, we might find commands like:
\index[aut]{Another Idiot} ... \index{FAQs}
Which place an entry in the author index, and then one in the main index. At the end of the document, we have two commands:
\printindex \printindex[aut]
Which will print the main index and then the author index. Supposing this lot to be in myfile.tex, after enough runs through LaTeX that labels are stable, execute the following commands (Unix-style shell commands shown here, but the principle is the same whatever system you’re using):
makeindex myfile makeindex myfile.adx -o myfile.and
and rerun LaTeX. The makeindex commands process
myfile.idx to myfile.ind (the default action), and then
myfile.adx to myfile.and, the two files needed as input
by the two \
printindex
commands in myfile.tex.
split
option, and
declare each index with a \
newindex
command:
\
newindex[<index name>]{<shortcut>}
and splitidx will generate a file
\
jobname
.<shortcut>
to receive index entries
generated by commands like \
sindex[<shortcut>]{<item>}
.
As with the other packages, this method is limited by TeX’s total
number of output files. However, splitindex also comes with
a small executable splitindex (available for a variety of
operating systems); if you use this auxiliary program (and don’t use
split
), there’s no limit to the number of indexes. Apart
from this trick, splitidx supports the same sorts of things
as does index. An example of use appears in
the documentation.
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