[tex-live] Makeindex, version 2.15 [TeX Live 2010] (kpathsea + Thai support)

[Lars Madsen]

That ought to be easily extendable using Zdeneks suggestion of actually asking makeindex to end the entriy with an explicit marker like \meti and then just defining \item as a delimited macro. Which would make it more durable in connection with strange, very very long user input.

/Lars Madsen
Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@imf / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@imf


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From: Chaa006 . [chaa006 at gmail.com] on behalf of Philip Taylor [P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk]
Sent: 03 October 2014 14:31
To: Lars Madsen; Zdenek Wagner
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Subject: Re: [tex-live] Makeindex, version 2.15 [TeX Live 2010] (kpathsea + Thai support)

Lars Madsen wrote:

> You complain about an unwanted newline in the output from makeindex.
> This leads me to think that you are doing some trickery with \item
> for it to grap/grep/gather up, data until the end of line.
>
> So I just wanted to know what you are using it for.

Yes, \item is re-defined to take an active end-of-line character as its
final delimiter; if this were not done, I would not be able to grab each
index entry and typeset it as I wish :

% !TeX File=Index.tex
% !TeX Program=XeTeX
% !TeX Root=A5-Master.tex

\def \Leftline #1%
        {
                \vskip \baselineskip
                \leftline {\largeboldredfonts #1}
                \vskip 0,2 \baselineskip \relax
        }

\let \finish = \end
\def \begin #1{}
\def \end #1{}
\vfill \eject
\obeylines
\def \item #1
        {\leftline {{#1}}}
\Leftline {Index of Authors}
\input author-index.ind
\Leftline {Index of Binders}
\input binder-index.ind
\Leftline {Index of Minor Hands}
\input minor-hand-index.ind
\Leftline {Index of MS Identifiers}
\input msidentifier-index.ind
\Leftline {Index of Other Persons}
\input other-person-index.ind
\Leftline {Index of Owner Individuals}
\input owner-individual-index.ind
\Leftline {Index of Owner Institutions}
\input owner-institution-index.ind
\Leftline {Index of Places}
\input place-index.ind
\Leftline {Index of Scribes}
\input scribe-index.ind
\let \end = \finish