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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Need to add vertical space in Index entries
My codes are follows:
\documentclass[executive,twoside, justified, symmetric, notoc, openany]{tufte-book}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\makeindex[intoc, name = Rindex, title = Index of R and RStudio, ...
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Importing a pre-generated index file to Overleaf
I have a problem with the index generated using Overleaf. I am using imaxeidx with no flags other than the title and number of columns. After generating the .idx file I simply use \printindex to print ...
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How to Get the Index to Display "Ibid" Instead of Page Numbers Where Applicable
Consider the MWE:
\documentclass{article} \usepackage{makeidx} \makeindex \usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage[style=verbose-trad2,ibidpage=true]{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.mst}
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Customize lst index list list of listings
I would like to see if there is a way to make the same format like this to show figures but for lst listings.
I would like to have something like:
CODE 1. CODE 1
CODE 2. CODE 2
That is to say, add ...
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Line-breaking problem produced by \dotfill and long index entries
First an MWE and its index page are as follows.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
%%%index setting%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\usepackage[colorlinks,linkcolor=blue]{hyperref}
\...
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OSCOLA Biblatex and UN Resolutions
I'd like to cite UN resolutions using the OSCOLA Biblatex package (from Paul Stanley).
I have my entry in the .bib file as:
@misc{UNGA_Res2222,
institution = {UNGA},
title = {Treaty on ...
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zhmakeindex is denied when to make Chinese index with imakeidx
First an MWE is as follows.
\documentclass{ctexart}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\usepackage[colorlinks,linkcolor=blue]{hyperref}
\makeatletter
\def\imki@progdefault{zhmakeindex}
\makeatother
\makeindex
\...
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Index of Names and Index of Terms are not recognized as sections
First an MWE and its output to the contents and index pages are as follows.
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[totoc=true]{idxlayout}
\indexsetup{level=\...
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Justifying problem on index entries
First an MWE and its output to the index page are as follows.
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{idxlayout}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\makeindex[columns=2,columnsep=2em]
\begin{document}
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Why is Pgfpages with the Pgfpagesuselayout{2 on 1} Command Not Picking Up the Index? [duplicate]
The following code
\documentclass[openany]{book}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\makeindex
\usepackage{idxlayout}
\usepackage{pgfpages}
%\pgfpagesuselayout{2 on 1}
\begin{document}
\LARGE
Some words.\index{...
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I would like to insert a counter inside an index in LaTeX
This is my first question on Stackexchange, please apologize if I am too naive!
In my lecture notes, I am inserting exercises in the text.
They have a specific counter, say \ExoCounter.
I am using a ...
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Dot spaces in Contents and Index
First an MWE and its output:
\documentclass[a4paper, 10pt]{book}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\makeindex
\newcommand{\AddIndexLetterToTOC}[1]{\textbf{#1}\phantomsection\...
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Correct way to add index letters to TOC
First a MWS and its output are as follows.
\documentclass[a4paper, 10pt]{book}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\makeindex
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.mst}
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Adding authors to index from citations [duplicate]
I’m writing a book, and using bibtex for references. I’d like to add entries for cited authors to the index, and am wondering if there’s a package or other way to do this automatically. So, if I cite ...
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making an index of words in texstudio
so i want to make an index that shows where certain words appear in which pages in the output pdf
let's say I have a document that contains a certain amount of the word "avocado"
and at the ...
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How to Specify the Gap Between Index Entries
The code
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\let\cleardoublepage\clearpage
\makeindex
\usepackage[itemlayout=singlepar]{idxlayout}
\begin{document}
\LARGE
This is the first paragraph.\index{...
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Package imakeidx not printing index voices/items into the Index chapter
Good evening everyone.
I have a problem with the package imakeidx, coding on Overleaf (XeTeX engine, TeX Live 2021) a master's thesis. This is an example of my main.tex document, which produces the ...
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Make index refer to \poemtitle (verse package) instead of page number
I try to make an “index of rhymes” in a poem collection.
So, I began to set an index called “Index of rhymes”:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\usepackage{verse}
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Line breaks in \index commands cause same entries to appear as different ones in the index
If there are two \index{} commands containing the same string, but one with a line
break, then that item appears as two different items in the index. See the MWE
below (copy it with the line break in ...
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How to add category "Figures" before "A" in index?
I'd like to create a category (letter group) named "Figures" before the first letter
"A" in the index. The following correctly puts "Figure description, 1" in
its own ...
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Using xindy with MiKteX (tex2xindy seems broken)
I'm trying desperately to use the xindy utility (v. 2.5.1, packaged on 2022-03-29) with theimakeidx package .
(Incidentally my aim is to use XeLaTeX, with the intent to create several indices using ...
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Can I get a List of Poems to include only poems from a specified group?
In the poetry anthology I'm compiling, the poems are fairly unsorted (and since it followed hand-written notes, that can't be changed). I would like to create a handful of groups, such as War, Love, ...
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LyX: Index title does not align with section titles
When adding an index in a LyX document, the title "Index" (or its modified name) does not vertically align with other section titles in the output. There is more vertical space above it. ...
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Issues with the Numbering of a Bible Verse Index
I've been trying to create a Bible verse index for a Bible project, and I currently have some problems with the numbering of the books in the index.
Here's my MWE:
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\...
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error on pagebreak in index of makeindex when using center environment in footer of package scrlayer-scrpage
I run into strange compilation errors regarding the combination of packages scrlayer-scrpage and makeidx. I reduced this to the following case
Define a footer via \cfoot* that contains a center ...
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index of an URL after item disappears
Inside \begin{itemize} , if I add a \index{text} after the \item, the "text" from the index appears in the index after \printindex but disappears from the PDF file in the original position ...
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How to Prevent Idxlayout's Placement of a Semicolon within the Content of an Index Entry for Paragraph-Type Delineations
Consider the code
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\makeindex
\usepackage{idxlayout}
%\usepackage[itemlayout=singlepar]{idxlayout}
\begin{document}
\Large
Some words.\index{Examples@\...
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How to Delineate All Index Entries Under a Heading Horizontally as a Paragraph
Consider the code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\makeindex
\usepackage{idxlayout}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\begin{document}
\Large
Some words.\index{Heading@\textbf{Heading}! 1. This is ...
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Adding a Period After the Page Number When Using Idxlayout
Consider the code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\makeindex
\usepackage{idxlayout}
\begin{document}
\Large
\noindent Some words.\index{\textbf{How to add a period after the page ...
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Multilingual bibliography and automatic indexing
I use biblatex to build:
An automatic index of the cited author of the bibliography.
A bibliography in a single language with the punctuation rules taken from langid of each entry.
As discussed in ...
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Is There a Proper Place to Put Indexing Syntax in the Code?
Consider the code:
\documentclass[openany]{book}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\makeindex
\usepackage{idxlayout}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\Large
This is a sentence. This is another \textbf{...
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Add number, inside the table of contents, to the Index printed with \printindex from imakeidx
I have almost done with my document, but the problem is that when I print my Index, the table of contents is not showing me the corresponding number (I want to make it as a chapter). So, I used
\...
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Indexing terms with accents in footnotes
I have a problem when I use \index to index a term with an accent in a footnote. The index key created is not the same as if I use \index to index the same term outside of the footnote. This causes ...
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How can I move index title to centre?
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{index}
\usepackage{parskip}
\makeindex
\begin{document}
To record the full absorption spectrum\index{Absorption spectrum}, the colour of
the incident light is ...
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Defining a "See, for Example, Someplace Else in the Index" Command
Consider the following code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\makeindex
\usepackage{idxlayout}
\newcommand{\forexample}[2]{\emph{ See, for example,} #1}
\begin{document}
\large
Some ...
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Adding text on last index page in Memoir class
Working in the memoir class, I would like to add some content on the final page of an index. Is there a simple way of doing this?
There is no \postindexhook to match \preindexhook [though there is a \...
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Why This Code Eliminating Index Commas Works for \jobname.mst and Not for \jobname.ist
This post is an addendum to How to Universally Remove the Comma from Each Index Entry.
In the link, I was looking for a universal way to remove the comma in each index entry.
Werner advised to include ...
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Process index of l3doc file / of .dtx file
I understand that .dtx files are a way to both document and implement a package in one file together.
Also, in newer versions, usually pdflatex package.dtx should typeset the documentation.
I wanted ...
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Difference Between Filecontents and Filecontents* and When to Use One Instead of the Other
I have recently been experimenting with different ways to replace the comma in the Index with a different symbol. The following code replaces the said comma with a blank space.
\begin{filecontents}{\...
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Using an \index format which changes based on section of the document
I am copying a long book with musical pieces throughout, set with gregorio tex. Each musical piece has a \label and is entered in one of several indexes created using imakeidx.
The document has ...
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More than two page formats for \label / \ref and \index with imakeidx
I am copying a large antique religious book that has multiple page number formats. In addition to roman and arabic page numbers, there are several additional sections with page numbers such as [1], 1*...
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How to Universally Remove the Comma from Each Index Entry
This question extends the one recently posed in How to Selectively Remove the Comma in an Index Entry
In the above post, it was answered that by inserting \newcommand\textbfnocomma[2]{\textbf{#1}} ...
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LyX adds unwanted sorting key into index entries
I am writing a document in the memoir document class, using LyX.
The document main language is Hebrew (minority of the document is in English), and I use polyglossia and XeTeX to handle the languages, ...
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Inserting Vertical Space Before Index Heading Items with Filecontents
I recently discovered a seemingly simple way to insert vertical space immediately before new index headings using filecontents---
Consider the code
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.mst}
item_0 "\n\\...
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Setting the General Space Between the Letter Groups in an Index with \Indexspace
Update In light of David Carlisle's very helpful comment providing a simple, efficient solution to setting the space between letter groups in an idxlayout index, I have modified the title a bit to ...
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How to Allow Hyphenation in the Index While Forbidding It in the Rest of the Document
Consider the code
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\let\cleardoublepage\clearpage
\makeindex
\usepackage{idxlayout}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[none]{hyphenat} % To prevent hyphenation
\...
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Specifying the Index Font Size to be Other Than Normalsize or Small
Consider the code
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\let\cleardoublepage\clearpage
\makeindex
%\usepackage{idxlayout}
\usepackage[font=small]{idxlayout}
\usepackage{lipsum}
%\indexsetup{...
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See (Elsewhere) in the Index; What am I Doing Wrong?
Consider the code
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\let\cleardoublepage\clearpage
\makeindex
\usepackage{idxlayout}
\begin{document}
\Large
Some words.\index{HEADING@\textbf{\textit{...
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A Blank Line Appears Between Consecutive Index Entries When Top Entry Extends Too Far to the Right
Consider the MWE
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\let\cleardoublepage\clearpage
\makeindex
\usepackage{idxlayout}
\newcommand{\beforeheadspace}{.7ex}% <<<<<<<<<&...
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In Trying to Extend a Simon Dispa Answer for Adding Vertical Spacing at Certain Points in the Index---a Curious Thing Happened
This post relates to trying to extend Simon Dispa'a answer given in Prescribing Certain Vertical Spacing for Idxlayout
Consider the MWE
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\let\cleardoublepage\...
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