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Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 92 17:40:09 +0100
From: kris@DIKU.DK
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Subject:      Indexing
Status: R


> How would a LaTeX3 user tell the indexing program how to sort? E.g. if
> I were an English speaker I might want to sort \aa{} as a, but as a
> Norwegian I would want it in its proper place after \ae{} and \o{}.
> ...

Sorting is quite easy if you use BibTeX---and in fact BibTeX makes
other indexing programs superfluous!  The idea is simple: let the
document generate an INDEX.BIB file (*not* INDEX.AUX) containing lines
like

    @indexentry{name, word = "Word", page = p}

and process that with BibTeX using a default INDEX.AUX with just

    \bibstyle{INDEX}
    \bibdata{INDEX}
    \citation{*}

in it using some simple style INDEX.BST that just sorts by Word-p and generates
an output INDEX.BBL with lines on the form

    \indexentry{Word}{n}

which may then in turn be used to generate an index by letting TeX
group the entries of the same!  Then you just have to configure BibTeX
to sort in exotic ways...which you'll need anyway for your
bibliography to be sorted right.

Regards,
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Kristoffer H{\o}gsbro ROSE                      Internet: kris@diku.dk
DIKU (Semantics group), University of Copenhagen   Voice: +45 35321420
Universitetsparken 1, DK-2100 Copenhagen {\O}        Fax: +45 35321401