[texhax] Multilingual index

[Uwe Lueck]

It would be good if somebody could comment who has already 
mastered the same problem.

If Xindy is too heavy (to learn), sorting issues always can
be solved by \index{TRANSCRIPTION at CYRILLIC}, see the LaTeX
Wikibook at

  en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Indexing#Sophisticated_indexing

Maybe this even fixes the formatting issue (by chance).

That Wikibook page also has a section "International indices"
with some remarks about Xindy.

HTH -- Uwe.
 
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Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. Juli 2014 um 10:21 Uhr
Von: "Uwe Lueck" <uwe.lueck at web.de>
An: "Victor Ivrii" <vivrii at gmail.com>
Cc: "texhax at tug.org" <texhax at tug.org>
Betreff: Re: [texhax] Multilingual index
> I get a an index sorted alphabetically correctly with cyrillic letters
> being ahead of latin. On the other hand for {book} latin letters are
> ahead of cyrillic. I find it rather strange. Is it possible to customize an order?

> Second, if in English index there is a double spacing between groups
> of keywords starting with the same letter, in Russian it is not so:
> double vertical spacing appears only for few letters. Is it possible to fix?

You are not saying *which way* you obtained those orders.
According to

http://ctan.org/pkg/xindy

Xindy was made for sorting multilingual indexes in a better way than makeindex does.

HTH -- Uwe. 
 
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Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. Juli 2014 um 08:11 Uhr
Von: "Victor Ivrii" <vivrii at gmail.com>
An: "texhax at tug.org" <texhax at tug.org>
Betreff: [texhax] Multilingual index

 
I found that with the following preamble
 

\documentclass[12pt,oneside,openany]{memoir}
\usepackage{index}
\usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english,russian]{babel}
\makeindex
 
I get a an index sorted alphabetically correctly with cyrillic letters being ahead of latin. On the other hand for {book} latin letters are ahead of cyrillic. I find it rather strange. Is it possible to customize an order?
 
Second, if in English index there is a double spacing between groups of keywords starting with the same letter, in Russian it is not so: double vertical spacing appears only for few letters. Is it possible to fix?
 
 
Thanks--
Victor Ivrii


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