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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Same Index twice in a document
I am trying to print the same index twice in a document, and in the following MWE the two indexes print fine, but I am observing that the first occurrence of
\printindex
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How to Outline Index Heading Letters? [duplicate]
Consider the code:
\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.mst}
%delim_0 "\\IndexDotfill "
%delim_1 "\\IndexDotfill "
headings_flag 1
heading_prefix " \\...
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custom halfdynamic list
I have problems creating a list first, but adding entries on the fly later.
I need the List (actualy more a numbered table/matrix/) in the first pages of my rather long document, and want to add the ...
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Using nomencl package with TeXShop? [duplicate]
I use TeXShop and I am having trouble compiling code that uses the nomencl package. Once the code reaches the \printnomenclature command, then it will only process a certain amount of text before the ...
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May imakeidx line up the indexed pages better, and avoid the comma separator
Is there a way to change the MWE below so as to avoid the commas as separators in the imakeidx-index between the symbols and the indicated pages; and next indent plus align the indicated pages so that ...
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What's a simple way to index symbols?
How may one in a most straightforward manner obtain an index of symbols, as in this photo from Kenneth Kunen's Set Theory - An Introduction to Independence Proofs?
Here is a MWE which may give a ...
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Display index in document body
Is the following structure possible?
I have keywords marked like this: \trackword{dog}. I'd like to display the page numbers where this keyword appears in the document body (not as an index) using the ...
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Index marks in margin are too long
With the command \showindexmarks the memoir class permits to show index marks in the margin of the document. With long index names, overlap of the mark with the document text occurs. Here is a MWE. ...
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Getting escape characters to protrude in the index with dox
After successful tests getting protruding (outdented) escape characters to work, see Index entries with outdented escape characters (thank you, contributors). The technique I chose was to define a ...
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Index entries with outdented escape characters
In the LaTeX Companion (2nd ed.), index entries for control sequences have the backslash outdented so that the first letter is aligned with other entries. I would like to implement this, not just for ...
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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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how to make entire index entry clickable?
I'm currently using the makeidx package in conjunction with the \hyperref package to create my index. It's working perfectly fine so far, but only the page number next to the index term is clickable.
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How to set index headings to use section instead of chapter when using memoir with imakeidx and idxlayout
I am currently trying to create multiple indices for a very long document and would like to know if there is a way to make \printindex[indexname] print the index titles as section* instead of chapters....
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Create an index of multiple files in the main.tex | for a master's thesis
It's been a lot of years that i'm working on my master's thesis and I would like to know if it's possible to make an index with multiple files. I know that there are a lot of forums pages about it, ...
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Makeidx interferes with babel
I have the following code to display an index:
\documentclass[12pt,oneside]{scrbook}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\makeindex
\usepackage[english,provide=*,bidi=basic,layout=counters.tabular]{babel} % <...
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Table like index page
Hey is there any way to make a table-like index page?
something like
\begin{tabular}{llr}
indexline
& description
& indexpages
\end{tabular}
the rows doesnt need to be automatically ...
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Inconsistent spacing between list of tables and list of listings
As you can see from the image below, I cannot make the distances between the titles and the elements listed in it equal.
Lists of figures, tables, and theorems have the same spacing, listings do not. ...
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Index Multiple Bible Verses with bibleref-parse
I have found a template for indexing individual Bible verses. Unfortunately, it does not properly index verses that occur one after another. In these cases, the list of verses are considered to be a ...
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Printing index on one line
How does one put all index items on one line, separated by ; , instead of one per line?
A related question.
In the MWE below, I would like to see:
Index
a, 1; b, 1; c ,1; d, 1
I (unsurprisingly) get:
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Memoir \specialindex with section counter
Memoir class has a \specialindex command, with syntax \specialindex{⟨file⟩}{⟨counter⟩}{⟨stuff ⟩}, allowing indexing with respect to something other than page numbers (see 17.2.2. of Memoir's manual).
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how are words that start with a quotation mark sorted in an index?
I need one of my words in quotation marks since there is no official term for the geometric shape. I tried \index{a@``a"} since I read in my manual to put how I want something nonstandard sorted ...
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Special character (\char") in index : bad display
I'm currently compiling an index for my thesis in which I list languages that don't have a Latin alphabet. This is the case for Mycenaean Greek, where I have to declare each character with the command ...
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Multiple volume cross referencing and indexing
Context: I'm producing a new version of a book that I’ve generated before, but this time it’s been decided (not by me!) to switch to two volumes. The first volume will remain static for subsequent ...
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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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Index Page with Hyperlinks
I'm trying to write a simple index page that has a hyperlink for each term. Here's my attempt (with some help from Chatgpt):
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage[...
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