How to make index with alphabetic order?

Question

Consider the following example :

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{makeidx,multicol}
\makeindex
\begin{document}
All\index{All},Apple\index{Apple}, Ball\index{Ball}, , Small\index{Small},     Zoo\index{Zoo}

 \printindex

\end{document}

Produces :

But I want like this :

I use kile in ubuntu10.04. How can I do my job ?

Answer 1

Try

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[makeindex]{imakeidx}
\makeindex[options=-s lou3.ist]
\usepackage{multicol}
\begin{document}
All\index{All},Apple\index{Apple}, Ball\index{Ball}, , Small\index{Small},     Zoo\index{Zoo}

 \printindex

\end{document}

and "lou3.ist" as a file in the same dir as your main file:

quote '+'
headings_flag 1
symhead_positive "Symbole"
numhead_positive "Zahlen"
heading_prefix "{\\bf "
heading_suffix "}\\nopagebreak%\n \\indexspace\\nopagebreak%"
delim_r "~--~"
suffix_2p "\\,f"
suffix_3p "\\,ff"
preamble
"\\markright{INDEX}\n\n\\begin{theindex}\n\\thispagestyle{headings}\n"
postamble "\n\n\\end{theindex}\n"

Answer 2

You can use Xindy instead of MakeIndex to get the desired output. But first you have to set up your editor (Kile) for that. Go to menu Options → Configure Kile and in the tree on the left go to Tools → Build and then select MakeIndex. In the upper right corner choose Xindy from the drop down menu (see screen capture).

Note that my system is German and the names on your system for sure will differ. But this should give you the necessary orientation.

Now you can slightly modify your code example and prepare it for use with Xindy.

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[xindy]{imakeidx}

\makeindex

\begin{document}
  All\index{All}, Apple\index{Apple}, Ball\index{Ball}, Small\index{Small}, Zoo\index{Zoo}

 \printindex
\end{document}

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