tex2xindy(1) xindy tex2xindy(1)NAMEtex2xindy - a preprocessor of the xindy index processor
SYNOPSIStex2xindy [-o] [attr_file]
DESCRIPTIONtex2xindy transforms a LaTeX index file ".idx" (or an ".aux" file) into
a xindy raw index file.
It is a filter that reads from stdin a file in the input format of
LaTeX's raw index file, i.e., with "\indexentry" tags. It outputs on
stdout a xindy raw index file, i.e., with "indexentry" clauses.
If the option -o is not specified, tex2xindy handles ^^-notation of TeX
and outputs the octet that is represented: "^^ab" in the input gets
output as the octet 0xab. If "^^^^abcd" or "^^^^^^^^abcdefab" are
detected, they are output as is.
If the option -o is specified, tex2xindy operates in Omega mode and
handles its ^^-notation: Then "^^ab", "^^^^abcd", and
"^^^^^^^^abcdefab" represent Unicode characters with code points 0xab,
0xabcd, and 0xabcdefab respectively. They are output in UTF-8 encoding.
If the optional argument attr_file is specified, tex2xindy writes all
index key attributes into this file.
DEFICITS
This program was written since it was not easily possible to extract
the parser from the old makeindex system. Therefore it does not find
all errors in the input as the makeindex(1) version.
Additionally it uses only the default input specifiers of makeindex(1).
If other input specifiers (cf. manual page of makeindex(1)) are needed,
the input specifiers (starting from the pattern "KEYWORD", see below)
must be changed and the program must be recompiled.
The particular missing feature is configuration of the quote and the
actual characters, maybe also the escape, subitem (level), and encap
characters. Argument and range delimiters seem to be less of a problem.
In fact, input markup handling (and thus tex2xindy) should be
incorporated into the xindy kernel, to be able to specify configuration
in xindy style files.
SEE ALSOtexindy(1), xindy(1), makeindex(1)AUTHOR
Roger Kehr, Institut fuer Theoretische Informatik, TU Darmstadt
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (c) 1996,1997 Roger Kehr. Copyright (c) 2006 Joachim Schrod.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Version 1.24 2010-05-10 tex2xindy(1)
