{indexing} is about creating an index or similar lists for your document, usually by means of executing makeindex.
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list of occurences of references
I need a list like the list of figures for \ref entries in the text to instances of a custom Theorem environment. Here's a MWE with a handbuilt example. The solution should add features to this code I ...
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“See also” in index entries
LaTeX's indexing packages makeindex and xindy provide good support for the basic features of an index: runs of pages, nested index sub-entries, and cross-references of the form:
Yurmurm-Peffifoss, ...
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Mini index for subsection
There is the following code:
\subsection{some subsection}
Some \mindex[mean=aaa]{sentence} with some \mindex[mean=bbb]{unknown} words.
\listminiindexfromsubsection
The expected output:
Some ...
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How to create index entry for \n?
I can't get LaTeX to generate index entry for newline \n. I tried \index{"\\n"} and \index{"\n"} and \index{\n} and \index{\\n}. None of these seem to work.
I am getting errors like:
! LaTeX Error: ...
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Can I make the index link to the correct part of the page?
I have managed to create an index where the page number links to the correct page. But I would like it to link to the correct part of the page, not to the top of the page. Is this possible?
Here is ...
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How to change chapter created by \printindex to section?
I wonder if there is a solution to the following problem: I wanted to create an index with the package makeidx and the scrartcl document class. \printindex creates a chapter called "Index". But all I ...
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Specify .ist-File for latexmk in TextMate
So I'm using latexmk.pl to compile my TextMate LaTeX Project and it's running quite nice. The only thing I'm missing, is, that i want to specify an individual style file for the makeindex command, ...
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Setting the name of an index with makeidx and adding to table of contents
I would like to change the name of my index, so that instead of "Index", it reads "Index of whatever I want". I've tried quite a few things:
redefining \indexname, after or before calling \makeindex
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How to produce a combined index from multiple documents?
I'm creating a set of documents which are contained in different LaTeX source files and are going to be compiled into different PDF files. Each one can have its own index, generated using the usual ...
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What is the equivalent to the german “Symbolverzeichnis” and how is it realizable in Lyx?
In mathematical books you have sometimes (in addition to the index of words) a list of symbols with a short description. In German it is called "Symbolverzeichnis". Is this somehowe realizable within ...
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macro for custom indexing with conditionals and text recognition
I was unable to solve this by myself and by searching this wonderful site. The problem is with indexing. I still consider myself as a LaTeX newbie :)
The situation:
- I'm working on an english book ...
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Automatically assigning abbreviations to an index in ConTeXt
I'm using ConTeXt to provide layout for my thesis across many files comprising the project.
I would like to automatically generate an index based on keywords and abbreviations with minimal hinting by ...
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Placing a PDF bookmark to the index page?
Using \usepackage{hyperref}and the \pdfbookmark[0]{...}{...} command you can place a PDF bookmark just before the index page generated with \printindex (Sometimes it will point to the empty page ...
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How to transmit german umlauts to an index created by splitidx?
I'm currently trying to transmit German umlauts in index entries (e.g., \sindex[p]{Böll, Heinrich}) to the index created by splitidx. Right now, to sort the entries the right way, the umlauts are ...
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Best LaTeX Templates for books and lecture notes
I have written and submitted a lectures series in mathematics in arXiv, arXiv:1211.3404. Its format is book, but I have some difficulties with it. For example for page numbering, indexing, etc. I am ...
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Makeindex error when ! used in \index in align environment
See MWE below. The symbol ! in the \index causes an error. This is only the case in align environments (not in equation). So it seems to have to do something with amsmath. If ! is put in an \mbox ...
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package makeidx: print first letter for each group of keys
I've created index with makeidx package. It works. What really need is to print the first letter above every group of keys (i.e. referring to the image I want to print the red letter, that I have ...
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Tagged Sections
A professor I work with has loads of exam problems in LaTeX. However, he wants to index them in some sort. He wants to be able to tag them according to topic, last year it was used and so on, and then ...
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Use content of keyword field of a bibtex entry to build an index when using biblatex
I built a reading list with biblatex with a - very - long list of court decisions.
The list is built using \nocite{*} once, and then \printbibliography (actually, several \printbibliographys using ...
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Indexing with biblatex - how to filter out publication titles of indexed authors?
I am creating an index with biblatex, but want to filter out the publication titles.
The goal is to have only the names of the authors in the index of authors, right now I end up with all author ...
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Beamer: Index of Listing
In beamer presentation I have a few headwords distributed on different slides. The appearance of these headwords I defined before and they don't be numbered.
Before these headwords started, I want to ...
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Properly sort index containing utf8 characters?
If my input file is utf8 encoded, how to I create an index where the entries are properly sorted?
Minimal example
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\makeindex
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Is there a limit to the number of entries makeindex or xindy can process?
I've been using the etex and glossaries packages, together with pdflatex, to build a document containing four main glossaries, each customised in a different way. So far the total number of ...
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How to create multiple indices with imakeidx? [closed]
I want to create two indices with the package imakeidx, using the splitindex option:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[splitindex]{imakeidx}
\makeindex
\makeindex[name=foo,title=Test]
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Creating a Word Index for a Book
I'm writing a book using memoir with a lot of technical words. I want to have an index at the end, which, for each word or term I choose, will refer the reader to the relevant pages. Is there any ...
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How to get correct page number of index in ToC [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Problem with the numeration appearing in the table of contents
Index is incorrectly listed in the table of contents
I am using
\usepackage{madeidx}
\makeindex
I ...
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How to fix symbol index entry?
All my entries in the symbol index involving $\|\cdot\|$ get rejected. For instance
{\index{symbol}{normx@{$\|\cdot\|_X$}}}.
How can I fix this?
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“makeindex” in Mac OS X (Snow Leopard)
I use LaTeX on a Mac, using TeXShop. It is possible to compile an index from within the TeXShop interface, except when I have more than one index (say, people and concepts) for the same text. In this ...
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Wrong vertical position of heading created by \printindex [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Setting the same distance from the top of the page for chapter and index titles
When compiling the following example, you can see that the heading heading "Index" ...
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Running head in LaTeX book is wrong
I have a book with 14 chapters, two appendices (each chapter and appendix in a separate file), and a bibliography and index. This is set up as:
Preamble
\mainmatter
include chapters
\appendix
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disable index creation in dtx file
The following code is a minimal dtx code with ending .tex (only for the example).
I try to understand when an index created and when not, how this is influenced by the loading of hyperref and fail to ...
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Removing spurious pagebreak in index?
EDIT: To clarify my question: I am not looking for an index that will start without a page break; I, rather, want an index where I manually would take care of the page break.
Say you've inserted a ...
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How to add \printindex to tableofcontents
I want to add the \indexname to the table of contents and to the bookmarks.
Now, I know one way to do this job: add the follow code before \printindex:
\phantomsection
\cleardoublepage
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Fixing page number references when adding multiple indices to ToC
Friends, I'm stuck with a funny error: when I add multiple indices in my table of contents, all page number references mess up. It's probably something easy to solve, but I can't figure out what it ...
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Multiple indices with ledmac and the book class
The package for critical editions, Ledmac, provides an \edindex{} command to have references to the page and line number in the standard Makeindex index. The package documentation also specifies that, ...
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input index file not found
Dear experts
I am using TeXnicCentre. After compiling, while I get an output pdf file, an error is found that says Could't find input index file *pathname* nor *pathname*.idx
I am afraid I cant ...
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How to create an index for custom environments?
I have defined a custom script environment, and would like to include an index in the output listing all scripts with their titles. How can I create such an index?
The custom environment looks like:
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option delim_0 “\\dotfill” in makeindex ignored by texlive's makeindex ?
I've a problem when making the index with a personal style file. here is my file perso.ist
headings_flag 1
heading_prefix "{\\bfseries\\hfil "
heading_suffix "\\hfil}\\nopagebreak\n"
delim_0 ...
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List terms(/keywords) together with their definition and a glossary
I want to be able to define terms/keywords and give definitions that might span multiple paragraphs. Given definitions of the following form:
\begin{definition}[Blue]
Blue is one of ...
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Get a preamble in index with makeindex
First of all, I'm not very good with Ubuntu, and only ok with LaTeX.
I'm currently finishing to write my thesis, and have one big question. I made two indices using multind. But I can't figure out ...
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How do I preserve hyperreferences in the index when converting text from LaTex to HTML
I have written a book with three indexes in LaTex. I can produce a perfect hyperreferenced pdf file using the dvipdf filename command, but I cannot convert Latex into HTML using htlatex or TEX4ht ...
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Placement of seealso-cross refs (with xindy)
Is there a way to have seealso cross references at the end of the index entry as the very last \subitem? They should look something like this:
Fruit
Apples, 3
Bananas, 4
Oranges, 9-10
see ...
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makeindex - sorting by page number
I'm trying to create an index of notation for my paper.
I'd like to sort the index items chronologically by order of appearance.
In other words, if I have the symbol $Z$ occurring on the second page,
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Customizing Index - Adding chapter heading and verse number to index entries
I would like to provide the chapter title and the verse number for each entry in the index. This is unusual but the book I am working on requires such formatting.
In the output I want the chapter ...
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\index causing spurious whitespace
I'm having a problem with the \index command causing unwanted whitespace:
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,oneside]{book}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\makeindex
\def \nothing #1{}
\begin{document}
\noindent ...
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Prevent column break in multicolumn index
I am using imakeidx to generate a multicolumn index with makeindex.
Here is an excerpt from my .ind:
\item \BRbooktitlestyle {\BRepistlenumberstyle {1}Jean}
\subitem ...
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How to display proper ranges in index using Xindy and XeLaTeX?
When I generate my index with XeLaTeX using xindy as described here: How to use xindy with XeTeX/LuaTeX? I struggle with proper ranges being displayed. Essentially, the dashes are missing and the page ...
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Combining bold and multi-page index numbering
Wish to have some multi-page Index numbering (e.g.: \index{Text|(} \index{Text|)}) appear BOLD. I tried adding \index{Text|textbf} but got no BOLD.
What's the trick?
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author's index with imakeidx in LaTeX
I am not an expert at all with LaTeX; I used it for the very first time some month ago to compose a conference proceedings volume modifying an already available script.
I am trying to refine the ...
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texindy/imakeidx book marks point to incorrect pages with multiple indices
I have two indexes: the Main Index and Name Index. The PDF books are visually correct:
Note that the Name Index starts on Page 6, and the Z entry for the Name Index is on Page 7.
However, up ...
