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 stops all indexation in any ...
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Missing item with labeled theorem when stop color leak from \showindexmarks
As noted in Color specification in \indexmarkstyle for \showindexmarks leaks into body text, using \indexmarkstyle{\normalfont\small\sffamily\color{red}} \showindexmarks with \showindex causes the ...
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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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Formatting indexes over column and page breaks [duplicate]
In a long document, with a 15-page index, we came across the issue that the formatting in the index, most specifically the placement of page and column breaks, was far from ideal, and that the tools ...
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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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How do I create an index where the key is sorted numerically if it is preceded by a letter?
I have a list of items and difficulty ratings: Name1, V1 Name2, V10 Name3, V2 etc I’m adding these to an index as: \index[boulderproblemsbygrade]{V1!Name1}% And then printing the index with: \...
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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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How may Unicode symbols be indexed?
Confer May imakeidx line up the indexed pages better, and avoid the comma separator?, which constitutes one basis for this question. I have problems with indexing unicode symbols. To understand 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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May imakeidx sort better after first occurrence
Below is an MWE which illustrate what I take to be some shortcomings in the index page produced. How may one make the Index of special symbols sort so that it is truthfully after first occurrence, and ...
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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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How run latex-indexer
The package latex-indexer (https://ctan.org/pkg/latex-indexer) is alleged to be a tool to automate generating indexes for LaTeX documents. But the usage described in its documentation does not seem to ...
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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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Default index file
Is it possible to define a default index file? I'm using Overleaf. I mean, I would like to write: \documentclass{memoir} \makeindex[words] <------ "default index file" \makeindex[...
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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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