Questions tagged [indexing]
{indexing} is about creating an index or similar lists for your document, usually by means of executing makeindex.
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Insert note after lettergroup using imakeidx/xindy
I would like to be able to enter a note in an index after \lettergroup something like this:
Of course, it would be possible to edit the .ind file to do this but I'd rather not. Ideally this would be ...
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Sorting entries by page number in a single index (out of multiple indices) made with imakeidx
I am trying to make two indices with imakeidx: an index of terms and an index of symbols. Since I am using mathematical symbols, I would like the symbols index to be sorted by page number rather than "...
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Remove newpage before \printindex
I want to remove the new page before \printindex
\phantomsection
\renewcommand{\indexSectionCount}{\myeval{\SectionCount-1}}
\renewcommand{\indexname}{B~Stichwortverzeichnis}
\addcontentsline{toc}{...
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Problem Printing Indices with Splitidx Package
Following the instructions in the Splitidx Documentation, I've been trying to add indices to a book document. It compiles witout error. However, none of the indices print. Here's an example of the ...
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Wrong index order when using \lstinline in \index
A stub of my document:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\makeindex
\begin{document}
\chapter{MyChapter}
This is a\index{A} test\...
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Index with both authors and subjects using natbib and makeidx
I am writing a book and trying to create an index that includes both authors (gathered from natbib references and the \citeindextrue command) and subjects (generated with the makeidx package and the \...
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How to use doc package \efill
I'm using indexing with the doc package and I've run in to an issue. When I have keys that are more than one word they justify over the whole column. I wanted to use the \efill macro to get the keys ...
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Equations: Why does formula symbol index notation “ff” cause such big letter spacing?
The formula symbol index notation ff is causing some ugly letter spacing in comparison to other index notation letters.
Minimum Working Example (MWE):
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\...
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Automatic index entry for multiword terms
I'm a lazy person. The less I type the better, so I'm trying to make a macro to automatically arrange index entries for multi-word terms (composed nouns actually).
Normally you'd have to type:
......
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Reverse-ordered index with makeindex
How to create a reverse-ordered index (i.e. from Z to A) with makeindex program? I use it for a version history list, just as in this question. However, I need to use makeindex for some reasons (...
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Ragged Right Index Entries
I'm down to the last pages of a 400+ page book -- the index. That's all working pretty well, except...
I have a few entries that are just badly type-set, such as the following entry for MOS Metallic-...
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xindy could not find file “lang/english/utf8-lang.xdy” despite being available
I get a strange error upon running
perl.exe \path\to\xindy.pl -L english -C utf8 -I xindy -M "main" -t "main.alg" -o "main.acr" "main.acn"
or equivalently,
xindy.exe -L english -C utf8 -I xindy -...
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Sort symbol index by page occurence
SE, I have a problem ordering items in symbol index.
MWE:
\documentclass[oneside,12pt,a4paper]{memoir}
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.15}
\let\memoldbibsection\bibsection
\let\bibsection\relax
%...
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imakeidx with both cross-reference and page range truncation
This is another (I hope final) follow-up to the questions Can one truncate page ranges in index using splitidx? and Page range truncation with imakeidx. I think I now know all the requirements about ...
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Makeindex - Is it possible to set page numbers on the right border instead of using the comma delimiter?
I'm creating an index using the makeidx package, and would like to change the default behavior:
key, number
to something like:
key ..................................................................
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Songs package not indexing
I am using the songs package v 2.18. the later update called 3.1 will not run on my pc. I have a problem that my current package is producing the lyrick book without index or page numbers. I need to ...
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Page range truncation with imakeidx
This is a followup question to egreg's answer to Can one truncate page ranges in index using splitidx? The answer runs into a problem if an index topic occurs in more than one page range. The ...
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How to change the text of 'see' and 'seealso'
I'm Hebrew user and I'm want to change the title of see and see also at the index (output of course) to Hebrew words:
see = ראו
see also = ראו גם
I look here:
Change index "see also" and ...
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Index with text different from structure text
How would to see in the index:
Borel, Émile, 6
set, 7
I tried with
\index{Borel!set}
\index{Borel@Borel, Émile}
but it doesn't work. Is there any wy to get it?
\documentclass{article}
\...
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How to make appearance of indexed terms link back to their index entry? [duplicate]
With an index named foo, we make an index entry using:
\index[foo]{\uplanop{#1}}
although typically I use something like:
\newcommand{\Foo}[1]{{#1}\index[foo]{#1}}
and with hyperref used as well, ...
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TeX refuses to produce a split index
I need an index of terms and an index of symbols for my document, and it seems like splitidx is a good way to do this. But it doesn't seem to work in my document. I eventually realized the problem is ...
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\widehat in \index inside align environment does not show up properly in the index
Why does the \widehat mathematical symbol show up as follows in the MWE below?
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{bm}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\newcommand*{\xv}{\operatorname{xv}}
\usepackage[...
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Why .ind empty (with error message from xindy although makeindex is used) when index command is inside an align environment?
When compiling the following MWE with texi2dvi -p, the second \index{} command
fails with the error message ERROR: CHAR: index 0 should be less than the length of the string
(seems like this is ...
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Can one truncate page ranges in index using splitidx?
The following MWE
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{splitidx}
\makeindex
\newindex{idx}
\newindex{aut}
\begin{document}
\setcounter{page}{124}\index{Topic1|(}\index{Topic2|(}Text\newpage
\...
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Oscola LaTeX package won't display Table of Legislation
I have the following LaTeX:
\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[style=oscola, ibidstyle=uc, ibidtracker=true, backend=biber, indexing=cite]{biblatex}
\...
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LyX index cross-referencing, “see” option
Exactly the same as this question. I have tried the answer there, but I can't seem to get it to work even with various permutations.
I want to have an index entry that says "circular functions, see ...
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Suppress page break before Index
By default, where I insert an index, it automatically does so on a new page. Is there a way to suppress this page break, so that my Index begins wherever I inserted it?
In the following MWE, I get a ...
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Garbled index with ltxdoc document class
When using the ltxdoc document class, index entries are misformatted, looking like this:
foomacro= \subitem *+\foomacro+, \usage{1}
rather than… however they’re supposed to look.
This sounds like a ...
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How to add Latin Words into an index
I have the following in my preamble
\usepackage[latin, english]{babel}
(for proper hyphenation) and then
\newcommand{\latin}[1]{\foreignlanguage{latin}{\emph{#1}}}
when I write \latin{ultra ...
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Referring to element in a list macro using index
Here is a minimal example of what I want to accomplish:
I have defined a list, such as this:
\def\listA{1/a/A, 2/b/B, 3/c/C}
I am now able to successfully loop through this list using
\foreach ...
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Latex for numpy boolean indexing [closed]
Assume mask is a length N boolean vector and x is a length N vector. Using numpy fancy indexing i can write:
y = x[mask]
How can the above operation be shown clearly, formally, and concisely using ...
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Get showidx working with multiple indexes
I would like to use showidx with imakeidx and multiple indexes. While the indexes are as expected the entries going into the non-default index are recognized incorrectly by showidx.
The documentation ...
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Display an index of dates
I write a document which tells a story long of a few months, and I would like to display an index of the main dates at the end. For example, I would like to type something like (french format): On ...
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Nomenclature and Index does not show up in a standard thesis template
Well, hello folks,
I am writing a thesis in a specific latex template that my department created.
I simply imported the zip file of the template into an overleaf project, and compiled. However the ...
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Change index style in memoir class
I would like to have a bold letter that accordingly separates the index in memoir. Take a look at this image to illustrate my intention:
This was taken from the memoir document, from which I did not ...
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Chinese indexes doesn't enumerate according to phonetic ordering
A MWE is as follows:
\documentclass{amsbook}
\usepackage{ctex}
%%%index setting%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\makeindex
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{document}
m
\index{康托}...
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page/line breaks with index
Consider the following possibilities for indexing a word (potentially enclosed in parentheses) with spaces before and after it:
1) \index{foo}long_word
2) long_word\index{foo}
3) (\index{foo}...
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Put \index before or after a word?
Following https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/167325, where it is suggested to put \index before the word, are there any other positive effects of saying \index{word}word as opposed to word\index{word}, ...
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How can I make the Songs LaTeX package's index order be in Swedish?
I first posted this same question over at Stackoverflow, where someone informed me that Tex has its own Stack Exchange site.
I'm making a song book in LaTeX, using the Songs package, and have been ...
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Multiple images ok, but index of figures wrong
I'm triyng to put multiple images together and succeeded, but the problem comes when latex creates automatically the list of figures, it makes stranger things.... Edited adding a MWE
\documentclass[...
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Stripping leading characters from command parameter
I have a command (AlertShort) with one input parameter that both prints text and generates an index. For standard text this works fine but, in some cases, the input parameter contains a symbol which ...
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How to change the highness of index in tensor package?
I'm having a problem with the index position in the \tensor command. When I write, for example, \tensor{A}{_\ mu}, I get a tensor with the subscript "mu" in a very low position. Is there any way I can ...
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Suppressing comma after question mark in one index entry
I want to index the name of a book that ends in a question mark. What I get is
\textit{What is Life?}, 27,
but what I'd like is
\textit{What is Life?} 27.
In other words I want to suppress the ...
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makeidx \printindex problem, is there one way to redefine index name as chapter format
I am using makeidx package, when use \printindex command, it will be start in new page,
Is there one way to let "Index" name as chapter style, just like "Chapter 1 Index".
I want to change the ...
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Redefine \S - problem with indices
Why are the subscripts placed under the letters and not in the right bottom corner like usual?
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,twoside]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\...
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Example of contentsline
I would like to learn how to use the command contentsline; to do this I wrote the code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\tableofcontents
\clearpage
...
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Why are there two identical headwords in an index where there should only be one?
In an index generated by Latex there are the two headwords: abhainn, 52 and abhainn, 53. But there should only be one, abhainn 52, 53.
Both of the instances of abhainn are marked identically in the ...
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A command/macro to use several bibleref styles in a single document
I would like to use several bibleref styles in the same document because some time I need abbreviated reference (e.g. jerusalem style), and at some other places I need to cite a reference in a more ...
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How to send the present value of a counter to the index
The following is a simplification of the behavior of pagnote package, when you send all the notes to the end of the book.
When some name in a note has to be indexed, it's better to make the number ...
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Index with Xindy, last line to long
I am trying to customise my index, based on this initial question. As i later found out, hyperref and xindy do not play nice if cross references are involved. Which is why I tried to follow this ...
