The nameauth package Charles P. Schaum charles dot schaum at att dot net v1.4 from 2012/07/24 Abstract The nameauth package automates the formatting and indexing of names, facilitating the implementation of a name authority. This allows one to move blocks of text without retyping names, making it easier to go from drafts to a final manuscript. This package mainly supports Western names, with basic features for ancient, royal, and Eastern names. Files Target distribution nameauth.pdf Documentation (normally in TEXMFDIST/doc/latex/nameauth) nameauth.sty Package file (normally in TEXMFDIST/tex/latex/nameauth) README This file (normally in TEXMFDIST/doc/latex/nameauth) Source distribution Makefile Automates building with GNU make 3.81 nameauth.ins Installer nameauth.dtx Documented LaTeX file containing both code and documentation Installation Target distribution Unpack nameauth.zip. Create the directories listed above. For TeX Live, TEXMFDIST is often /usr/local/texmf//texmf-dist on Posix-compliant systems. Manual installation calls rather for /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local or ~/texmf. MacTeX and MikTeX differ. Please refer to your distribution manual. Copy the target distribution files to their appropriate destinations. Run mktexlsr with the appropriate level of permissions. Source distribution notes: One can use the following commands to generate the target distribution: Generate the style file with any form of LaTeX: $ pdflatex nameauth.ins Generate the documentation (optimal with pdflatex): $ pdflatex nameauth.dtx -draftmode "\AtBeginDocument{\OnlyDescription} \input nameauth.dtx" $ makeindex -s gglo.ist -o nameauth.gls nameauth.glo $ makeindex -s gind.ist -o nameauth.ind nameauth.idx $ pdflatex nameauth.dtx "\AtBeginDocument{\OnlyDescription} \input nameauth.dtx" $ pdflatex nameauth.dtx "\AtBeginDocument{\OnlyDescription} \input nameauth.dtx" I used GNU make to automate the process, As of v.1.4, the following apply: Create the distribution. Works with latex, pdflatex, and xelatex: $ make Create the full pdf. Works with all of the above plus lualatex. (Lualatex handles -draftmode in an incompatible manner.) $ make fullpdf Testing notes: This packages works with the commands latex, lualatex, pdflatex, and xelatex. It can be used with makeindex and texindy (but I have not done so for building the package itself). For testing purposes, the make file permits one to change the typesetting engine on the command line. The default is to build the package with pdflatex. See Makefile for more details. License This material is subject to the LaTeX Project Public License. See http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.lppl.html for the details of that license. Happy TeXing!