Questions tagged [xindy]
a flexible indexing program for generating book-like indexes in TeX and LaTeX, the roff-family, SGML/XML-based systems
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How to restore xindy, supposedly corrupted by recent MikTeX updates?
I am using
\usepackage[xindy]{imakeidx}
\makeindex[options=-L russian -C utf8]
\makeindex[name=persons2, title=Именной указатель, columns=3
, options=-L russian -C utf8]
to generate both subject ...
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Is Perl still needed for usage of xindy with MiKTeX?
If I decide to completely reinstall (or do a new installation on a new computer) all my LaTeX stuff (TeXnicCenter and MiKTeX), I also always reinstall Perl. Since I use xindy, I always used this ...
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Is there any way to compress footnote numbers in indices?
Makeindex is able to automatically compress page numbers in indices.
I'm wondering if there is an automatic way to compress footnote numbers in the case when an indexed term appears in two footnotes ...
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Tex4ebook section numbers in index don't work anymore
I have successfully used the recipe described in
tex4ht: indexentries/structure of the .ind-file
to get nicely formatted links with the format e.g. 12.3.1 in the index of my eBook with the TeX ...
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How to add continuation alerts to the index of a book? [closed]
I am preparing a textbook for publication using imakeidx, and the index is quite long, with many topics and subtopics. It's common for the list of subtopics under a main topic to be split across page ...
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is xindy under use/development?
On one side, xindy seems to be the modern replacement of makeindex,
and in my distribution, there is a frequent update of the xindy version,
but it seems to be always 2.5.1-xxx.
Stackexchange has a ...
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Create a Hungarian index with xindy
The Hungarian alphabet is the following:
a, á, b, c, cs, d, dz, dzs, e, é, f, g, gy, h, i, í, j, k, l, ly, m,
n, ny, o, ó, ö, ő, p, q, r, s, sz, t, ty, u, ú, ü, ű, v, w, x, y, z,
zs
For the ...
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Left-align Two-column Glossary for English Words
I have used glossaries package in order to produce an English-Persian and Persian-English dictionary, with a style which I found here. But regrettably, the English words are not left-aligned as you ...
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How to create a new index entry using imakeidx package?
THIS IS NOT A DUPLICATE OF THE FOLLOWING ANSWERS!
Makeindex cannot generate subsubsub.. index entries
How to Permit 4-Level Deep Index Entries (was, "Why are Index Entries Rejected?"}
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Sort greek and latin letters in one symbol glossary
I am writing my PhD thesis and create a list of symbols with glossaries and xindy. Here, latin and greek letters are used. The problem is the correct sorting with xindy. If I use english for sorting, ...
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xindy with arbitrary locations (not page numbers): no sort, no ranges, hyperlinks
I'm trying to write an index using "locations" that are not page numbers but some kind of sections (not with proper sectioning commands either). These locations are just numbers with ...
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A sorting of multilingual index in alphabetical order doesn't work with xindy
I want to create a multilingual (Russian and English) alphabetical index. makeidx doesn't work with Cyrrilic symbols, so as far as I know the best solution is to use xindy option in imakeidx. I tried ...
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First use of \gls from glossaries doesn't produce a long version of acronyms with Latex Workshop
I want to use the glossaries package to generate two glossaries with one acronym glossary. It worked well with TexStudio and MiKTex but if I try it with Latex Workshop in VS Code and Tex Live, the ...
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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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TexStudio with arara; cannot find extractbb
With some help from the prior question TexStudio and arara, I was able to get started with arara inside TexStudio (Yay!). But while running a Xelatex compilation (the 2nd example code in the URL just ...
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