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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How can I have two or more distinct indexes?
I often want to have more than one index in a longer LaTeX document. For instance, I might want a general concept index, an index of named persons, and an index of symbolism. How can I have two or ...
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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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Command to uppercase the first letter of each word in a sentence
I'm writing a textboox in latex, and I have things like
\textit{some definition}\index{Some Definition}
all over the place. I'd like to combine them into something like
\define{some definition}
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TeX capacity exceeded (save size)
I am generating a fairly large index of .txt, .tex, and .pdf files. This process has worked for a long time, and the size of the index is not the issue. I have added logic to insert additional links ...
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Index entries duplicated for captions [duplicate]
In document class book, and package caption, creating index with makeidx.
Index entries for the main text and for footnotes collate properly; but those for captions create their own entries.
Example: ...
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`\index{...}` in footnode different from `\index{...}` in main text
Dear all I think I have a problem with the collation of makeidx.
following some suggestions found here I have got in the text something like this
\index[p]{Plutarco!demalignitate@\textit{De ...
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Symbol index sorted by occurrence
I would like to make an symbol index which is sorted by occurence of symbol.
For example: Something like
... $\omega$\index{$\omega$} ... $A^P_k$\index{$A^P_k$} ... $\{\}$\index{$\{\}$}
should ...
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Remove page number from index entries
My indexed terms are hyperlinks (to external files -- see question listed below), so the page numbers are really not useful information. Hece I would like to be able to remove the page number (and the ...
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Create a register of persons with biblatex
How can I create a register of persons who are mentioned in my PDFLaTeX document?
I want to write
The screwdriver was turned by \person[Mr.]{Miller}.
The screwdriver was turned by M. Miller.
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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 to use xindy with XeTeX/LuaTeX?
According to Xindy revisited: Multi-lingual index creation for the UTF-8 age (TUGboat), “if one has a raw index file that was produced by [XeTeX], one can use xindy; it will ‘just work’.”
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How to configure TexStudio editor to use glossaries package with makeglossaries and xindy or how to configure TexStudio to use arara?
Xindy is an efficient indexing tool, it is an external perl-based application that ships readily with TexLive distribution but not with MikTeX, for the latter one you need to install it manually, this ...
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Differences between "xindy" and "makeindex"
I'd like to know which are the essential differences between makeindex and xindy (or texindy) in this sense:
What things can we do with xindy that we can not do with makeindex? or vice versa.
What is ...
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How can I convince hyperref and xindy to play together nicely?
I'm using xindy to generate indexes for a manual that gets translated into multiple languages. Unfortunately, hyperref and xindy don't like to play nicely together. I found some older mailing list ...
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Make index entries refer to something other than the page numbers
For a given book which is a daily devotional, I have no page numbers at all, but each section corresponds to a day in the year, with one day per page. I generate an index of Bible references in the ...
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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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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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Duplicate typeset index entries [duplicate]
I want to have an index entry typeset as $a_\text{T}$, so I issue the command \index{at@$a_\text{T}$}. Each use of this index command creates a separate line in the index. How can I get \makeindex to ...
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How to sort alphabet index in Vietnamese correctly?
I want to use index in Vietnamese Alphabetically. The order must be a, b, c, d, đ, e, ê. But in following code. That order is wrong. The first is "Ê", not "A", the second is "Đ", not "B". How to ...
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Layouting the index-page
I'm using \printindex for my index and I wonder how to have
bold page numbers
ordering by first character of the indexed word and have dots
in between the name and page number like
A
Apple .... ...
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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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Index with an initial letter of the group [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
package makeidx: print first letter for each group of keys
I'm trying to adapt the index of my contribution such that each group of words (starting with the same letter) has ...
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Index is incorrectly listed in the table of contents
I have a large document with an index compiled through makeindex, and is included in my source .tex as follows:
\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Index}
\printindex
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Sorting Vietnamese utf8 index with make-rules in xindy package
I am using the xindy package to compile the index containing Vietnamese. It
works fine except the order within words. The "standard" order is accepted
as the following, which is different from the ...
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Compatibility of hypertexnames=false and indexes
I would like to use hyperref with hypertexnames=false. This leads to a problem with indexes: The correct pages are printed, but they lead to the wrong location. MWE:
\documentclass[index=totoc]{...
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automated indexing against keyword file
I use the package pdfpages to include scanned and ocr'd pdf's in my LaTeX document, and I need to index them (over 200 pages). I have a plain .txt file with all keywords that I'd like to find my ocr'd ...
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List of Indexing Packages - Pros and Cons
What are the various indexing packages and what are their pros and cons? When should one choose one over the other?
There is some discussion of this in What are the latest/best practices for index ...
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Footnote numbers in index (e.g., 23n3)
I'm currently weighing indexing options for a book-length project. One of the more surprising hurdles is that there doesn't seem to be a way to create an index (in my case, several indices) that ...
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Mark indexed entries in the text itself?
I will be working with a professional indexer of the old school — meaning that she prefers making her index on cards using a pencil while looking at a finished book whose pagination will not change — ...
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Is there an easy way to hide comma (,) from the end of the indexed words?
I use
\usepackage{makeidx}
\makeindex
and then I index a word as \index{word}.
After \printindex in the Index it is appear as
word, 1
and I want it to appear as
word 1
But I don't know how ...
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xindy : how to add new letters and lettergroups to the alphabet?
How to define a style file that adds a couple of extra letters to the latin alphabet, and the corresponding lettergroups?
I'm using the index package, and compiling the .idx files with texindy like ...
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Index that picks up on example numbers, not page numbers
I am producing some glossed linguistic texts in a Native American language. The sentences are labeled as, e.g., (2.3)—meaning “text 2, sentence 3”—and I’d like the index to pick up on these numbers, ...
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Make an index of historical time periods
I'm writing my thesis & I want to make an index with centuries, years, month, day, event & historical periods. So I try to build some commands, but unsatisfactory, I'm looking for your help.
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Texindy sorting Icelandic
I use command texindy -L icelandic -M lang/icelandic/utf8 dict_main.idx to create a list of the names of the photographes, their authors and licenses. But the sorting is not correct (for example ...
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Applying \lowercase to index entries
I would like to sort the index entries independent of case.
Initially I was getting (code provided in MWE) the image on the left. So, that seemed like an easy fix: just apply \lowercase (uncomment ...
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Index not created in pdf output, even though idx file is present
I have a document that has \usepackage{makeidx} and \makeindex in the preamble and \printindex inside the document body. An .idx file is created when I compile, no errors are signalled, still there is ...
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How to configure TexStudio editor to use Xindy?
I am using TexStudio editor for LaTeXing, I want to use Xindy engine though for indexing, in the commands of TexStudio, I found there is a default command for texdindy as in the image below. But how ...
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Automatically index acronyms
I'm using the acronym package. Is it possible to automatically add an index entry each time an acronym is used?
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Correct hyperlink to the index
I am writing a document using the book class, and the hyperlink to the index sends the pdf viewer a bit too far, i.e. when I click the top of the screen is at the start of the index instead of ...
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Customize xindy index layout
I am making a songbook, using the songs package. The book is in norwegian, and thus we need the norwegian letters æ,ø,å to be indexed after z. As far as i understand, this is only possible with the ...
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makeindex - print links sorted by page
Auto generate List of \url usages within document describes a method for generating an index of URLs that are used in the document, including page number. However, the URLs are sorted ...
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Linking indexed term to index entry
I am trying to create links from \index commands to corresponding index entries. When hyperref package is loaded, page numbers in index are, by default, linked to the page on which \index command for ...
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Change index "see also" and "see" format
Desired index result
I want an index using makeindexto have entries like the following (where I've used ~~~ and ~~~~~~ to indicate indenting for subentries and sub subentries):
nothing, 1
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Bibtex and index of authors
Is there any way of automatically creating an author index based on
citations via bibtex?
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How to refer to indexed words
Given a text with an indexed word, say minimum, is it possible to have a command, call it \DEX{}, that would print a later occurrence of that word and link it to the original occurrence? For an on-...
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idxlayout customized delimiters
I'm using the packages imakeidx and idxlayout (the latter with "singlepar" layout) and I'm trying to customize the default delimiters.
My aim is to obtain different delimiters for subitem and ...
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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 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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Hyperref and imakeidx do not work together
I use imakeidx package to generate index in my document. I'd like to add hyperlinks into my Index, but it seems to me that hyperref and imakeidx do not work together. For example, this code doesn't ...
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Is there an automatic process to create index creation?
Certainly, there must be some way to somewhat create a list of words suggested to be included in an index.
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