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Article #1115Re: index.tex (was: Anyone have indexing with eplain?)
From: Joachim Schrod
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 13:37
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 13:37
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In article <70174@ut-emx.uucp>, myers@ut-emx.uucp (Eric Myers) writes: > > A while back Samir Varma (varmint@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu) put out here a > general request for info on indexing packages. I believe he found that > there were several things available for LaTeX but that support for Plain > TeX was somewhat lacking. He also found a very nice program called > MakeIndex which can do the actual sorting, merging and such required for > making a truly good index. MakeIndex can be configured for almost any > text processing markup language (including troff) but the default is set > for LaTeX. Support for Plain TeX (and AmS-TeX!) is included in MakeIndex. Check the directory lib/ for files idxmac.tex and idxmac-amstex.tex (the former for Plain, the latter for (guess what :-)). -- Joachim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Joachim Schrod Email: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de Computer Science Department Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany ``laser printer output must be at least 1,000 dots per inch [to be accepted as] good quality'' -- ACM TOSEM, Instructions to Authors
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!unido!ira.uka.de!THD-News!iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de!schrod From: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Joachim Schrod) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: index.tex (was: Anyone have indexing with eplain?) Keywords: index, Plain TeX, MakeIndex Message-ID: <1992Apr13.133752.33498@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de> Date: 13 Apr 92 13:37:52 GMT References: <MCGLK.92Apr9115838@bailey.cpac.washington.edu> <70174@ut-emx.uucp> Sender: news@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de (The Usenet-News System) Organization: TU Darmstadt Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: hp11.iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de