tex2xindy?
tex2xindy is a filter that parses `.idx' or similar files
and converts the \indexentry macros into a form readable by
The parser of makeindex can be configured to recognize different
quoting characters, etc. (see the man-page for makeindex, section
input style specifiers for further details). We have tried to
extract the parser from makeindex but due to several probems we
have finally rewritten the parser using lex. Scanners written
with lex are usually fixed to a specific character set used in
the regular expressions. Our parser, tex2xindy is therefore not
configurable. If one uses a different configuration of the
makeindex input style specifiers, one can change the source
(tex2xindy.l) to generate a completely new parser. From our
personal experience we have rarely used more than two different
parsers in practice so we have written tex2xindy in a form that
is easily maintainable. The input specifiers are stored symbolically
in the source. The definiton section looks like this:
KEYWORD \\indexentry
ENCAP \|
ACTUAL @
ESCAPE \\
LEVEL !
QUOTE \"
ROPEN \(
RCLOSE \)
ARGOPEN \{
ARGCLOSE \}
These definitions are essentially the input style specifiers as can be
found in the man-page of makeindex. Changing this section
according to your needs and recompiling tex2xindy should be an
easy task. Maybe we will include more pre-defined parsers in future
releases if necessary.
We strongly recommend using the LaTeX2e-package index written
by David M. Jones, which is available at CTAN. It supports multiple
indexes as well as several shortcuts to easily index terms in a
document. Multiple indexes support the generation of several indexes
for one document. For instance, one can make an author or command
index in addition to a global index.
Another option is to use the xindy.sty from Andreas Schlechte
that comes with the contrib directory that should contain a version.