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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Can the comma in the index be replaced by another character?
I am looking for a simple solution to change index entries so that I get honey • 24 instead of honey, 24. I looked through a couple of articles on influencing the index style (idxlayout customized ...
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Latex, oblivoir class: make index with hyperlink
I want to make index list with hyperlink.
The LaTeX code is:
\documentclass{oblivoir}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\usepackage{hyperref}%
\makeindex
\begin{document}
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Detecting makeindex's level specifier
I am currently writing a small package, and want to write a changelog macro that wraps \index similar to:
\NewDocumentCommand{\changes}{mm}{\index{#1!#2}}
However, the level specifier ! can be ...
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Cross referencing table of contents and index
I have two separate books, book1 and book2. Book1 contains chapters 1 and 2 and book 2 contains chapters 3 and 4. Is it possible to compile both books so that the table of contents of each lists
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Random order of accented entries with texindy
After sorting out my problem with imakeidx, I still have an issue with a wrong alphabetical order of accented Hungarian entries in the index. Updated MikTeX running lualatex-dev.exe with -interaction=...
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indexonlyfirst option not working for \usepackage{glossaries}
I am trying to use print only the first index where the acronym is called in Overleaf but it's not working. If I call th acronym in two pages, the number of the two pages is printed in the glossary. I ...
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Is there a way to sort index from Uppercases to lowercases
I'm using xindy to create indeces. However, the default sort order is not sensible for uppercase and lowercase. Is there a way to create a .xdy file so that the uppercases are sorted in front of ...
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De-tokenise titles ended in index of names with a custom cite command (Biblatex)
Dealing with @incollections linked with @collections via crossref, I had to figure out a new cite (\citecc)command which could tackle the case of an incollection cited after the parent collection:
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imakeidx in the amsbook class makes incorrect header
When I use imakeidx package together with the amsbook document class I get an incorrect header "INDEX" instead of the designated title (in the example below "SUBJECT INDEX") on the ...
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Create a tcbcolorbox with multiple tags, and then put all relevants boxes in a list (depending) on their tag
My problem is the following.
I want to create exercises (without using the package exercise) using tcolorbox.
The thing is I want to be able to index these exercises depending:
-their level of ...
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printindex and tikzexternalize won't create a pdf-file for the tikz-image
When using \printindex and \tikzexternalize together, then \tikzsetnextfilename{pdfname} will not create a external pdf-file for the tikz-image.
See sharelatex link: here or code here:
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How to fix page style of "Index" pages?
I have a simple question.
I have a basic document, to which I would like to add an index.
I am using standard tools for this: the package imakeidx.
I have encountered following problems:
Index pages ...
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Numbered Index in Page Head
With the value "index=numbered" within the document class "scrbook" I changed the chapter head in this example from "MyIndex" to "2 MyIndex". In the pagehead ...
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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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Cannot make index referring to line numbers list more than one instance
I cannot wrap my head around the existing examples like this.
I am using the ekdosis package, which depends on the verse, and ultimately lineno to generate line numbers for a long verse based document....
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Index not compiling with the -output-directory option [duplicate]
I have a minimal working example of my main latex file main.tex:
\documentclass[12 pt, oneside]{book}
% ________________________________Packages_________________________________
\usepackage[margin=1 ...
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Customize subentry indent and column width in index
I would like to change the indent space in index entries for subentries and page numbers.
I tried to use a customized style file for makeindex, changed delim_x, changed parameters associated to lists,...
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Best solution for acronyms, abbreviations, glossary and index
I am writing a scientific text/book which will contain acronyms, which should have a glossary and should also have an index. The question is: which LaTeX setup is best for this? Which are the best ...
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How can I create a beautiful symbol table?
One part of my "Geometrie und Topologie" book is a symbol table that allows students to quickly find the right words when they don't understand a symbol. This makes searching via the index / Wikipedia ...
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Give \printglossaries a section number and customize the name?
When I print my glossary using \printglossaries it prints the glossary on a chapter level (at least it gives it the style of a chapter heading + it appears in the index on a chapter level). However, ...
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Order of Entries in Index
I am working on an index of first lines for a poetry book and would like the punctuation of the lines NOT to affect the order in which they appear in the index. For example:
Now entries appear in the ...
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TeXShop on Mac: how to automatically run three times for Composition?
When I use the button "Composition" in TeXShop, I get a single pass compilation and all my references and index aren't right (I get ?? marks all over the PDF document instead of their proper ...
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Sorting order in Marathi
I am creating a document in Marathi, using the package marathi. I want to add a subject index at the end of the document, which I can add by using the imakeidx package. But the sorting order of the ...
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A Disappearing Index Entry with Idxlayout
In the past, I have put together some rather large index entries in terms of content without encountering any problems.
However, I have discovered that when I add some color, there seems to be a ...
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How to make annotated index in LaTeX?
I am writing a grammar textbook in LaTeX and I am trying to make annotated index of vocabulary. For example, in the main body of the document we have a sentence in Icelandic:
Stóð þá Egill upp ok ...
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Automatic Indexing of Citations using natbib
I'm using the natbib package with imakeidx to generate a list of citations using \citeindextrue as follows
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackages{imakeidx}
\makeindex
\begin{...
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How can in tex4ebook special characters be managed, like german Umlaute?
Thank you Micha for reminding me to this new question.
I followed the first steps for tex4ebook this weekend for the first time and got close to the finish. I follow a discussion here some years after ...
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Index entry with blackboard font in footnote ignored
The following MWE produces the expected index entries for Q and Z but none for N. I guess this must be some strange interaction between \footnote, \mathbb, and \index, but how do I fix it?
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Index formatting with footnote number has clashed with "See" and "See also"
I am facing an issue in tagging the index for See, See also and some index terms which are in footnotes. Index representing within the footnote was to be reproduced along with footnote number in the ...
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Indexing with tex4ebook showing undefined control sequence
I use tex4ebooks the first time. I thought today that I managed to get indexing with it, but then at the final step an encoding problem arose, which I already solved with the help of the forum.
But ...
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Overwriting an External Index Style File from filecontents Environment
I'm using the filecontents environment to make a small index format inside a tex input file as follows:
\begin{filecontents}{format.ist}
headings_flag 1
heading_prefix "{\\bfseries\\hfil&...
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Index in KOMA-Script layers
Background.
I would like to replace the intentionally blank pages or vacat pages in scrbook with a page which shows a new quote on every new blank page. Thanks to scrbook and LuaTeX this is not ...
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Error with accent characters in index item with tex4ebook and xindy (Texlive 2020)
This is a follow-up of my previous question here. I'm using texlive 2020 and using the files provided by @Michal.h21.
I have modified the input file sample.tex.
\documentclass[ebook,12pt,oneside,...
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Print "thumb index" on Index
I would like to know how to print the first letter of index from the available index items of the current page in the right hand of the book (for odd page) and left hand of the book (for the even page)...
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thispagestyle empty on printindex
I tried to get an empty pagestyle on the first page of an index, as I did for all chapters and lists, but failed.
\documentclass[10pt,twoside,toc=listofnumbered,listof=flat,headinclude,footinclude,...
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How can I avoide page numbers being increased automatically?
For a private project of mine (more or less "The Story of my Life") I am preparing lots of inputfiles like '1986.tex' with (for me) interesting items of my life, so as vacations, special ...
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Auto generate an Index
Is there any way to auto-gererate an index for the makeidx package? I've written ~270 pages and didn't think of adding \index{} everywhere.
Do I really need to go over everything and add \index{}?
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How to create 2 kinds of ToC chapter, one for abstract and one for the other chapters
I have an example here.
I want to delete the index of chapter 1, so that it begins with the index of section.
But I want to keep the index of other chapters.
Can anyone help me? Thank you.
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Combining glossaries and index?
I am working on a document where glossary entries are referred to from the index. This works, until I add conditional text, indicating whether a description was added or not. It looks like TeX falls ...
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Combine or look up index from another book
I'm writing two books. Assume one is Thanking in Java (the J book), and the other is Thanking in C# (the C book). Each book has its own index. The MWE is the following.
java.tex
\documentclass[]{...
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How to get custom sorting order for indices?
I see a question here which has the exact same problem that I am facing, but for a different language. Unfortunately it is closed because of lack of clarity and a reproducible MWE. This is an attempt ...
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hvindex misbehaving with lualatex
While attempting to implement 'hvindex' in a luatex-compiled document, I discovered that the nesting feature provided by hvindex doesn't work. Here a code sample, with the precise preamble that I am ...
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dot on a subscript mathmode
I am suppressing some of my subindexes in some equations, and I am using a dot in order to signal which dimension is gone. Up to now, I have been using a \bullet symbol as a dot. Is this the "...
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Index with hyperreference to the page
I would like to have hyperlink in the index list, like if I press the page 8 it will move me to the page 8.
I use the package
\usepackage[xindy]{imakeidx}
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Multiple aligned equations with one compact label
I would like implement a consistent way to mark my equations as follows:
a=a, b=b, c=c (1a,b,c)
and to be able to cite every single equation independently, as for instance:
Equations (1) ...
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How to make clickable links and cross-references in pdfs produced by LaTeX?
How can I make things link url references, my index, table of contents, and cross references clickable links in documents produced by LaTeX? I generally use pdflatex to produce my documents.
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How to put main index entries in bold
I need to create an index for a technical document. I would like some index references to have the main entry (typically where a term is defined) in bold and all other references in the same index ...
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Making index in Pandoc generated ebook
I would like to make the example I have written in this question to work in Pandoc. When run using pandoc input-tex-file -o output-epub-file, pandoc produces a nice ebook using this tex file. However, ...
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Include a chapter index (package minitoc) in the template kaobook
Good afternoon,
I am currently working with the kaobook template (download link: https://www.latextemplates.com/template/kaobook). In said template, I am trying to set up a chapter index using the ...
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Indexing Question Numbers
I'm typesetting a math book. Since the book spirals, and there are different types of questions in each assignment, I'd like a simple way to refer students to problem types.
I tried using a simple ...
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