Xindy Explained

xindy is a flexible program for sorting and formatting book indexes. It was written by Joachim Schrod as a successor to MakeIndex. xindy supports indexing for a variety of programs, including especially LaTeX and troff, and produces complex indices of the data.

xindy is cited as one of the most widely used indexing programs for LaTeX.^[1] Unlike MakeIndex, xindy features strong support for many languages in addition to English, and many standard character encodings including Unicode.^[2]

xindy is licensed under the GNU GPL.^[3]

References

• Web site: Chapter 7. xindy . References for TeX and Friends, Revision 0.3.8 . Michael . Wiedmann . 2004-10-29 . 2007-12-03 . TUG.

Notes and References

1. Book: Mittelbach, Frank . http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/0201362996/ch11 . Chapter 11: Index Generation . The LATEX Companion: Second Edition . 0-201-36299-6 . April 22, 2004 . 2007-12-03 . Addison Wesley Professional. etal.
2. Book: Mittelbach, Frank . http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/0201362996/ch11 . Chapter 11.3. xindy—An alternative to MakeIndex . The LATEX Companion: Second Edition . 0-201-36299-6 . April 22, 2004 . 2007-12-03 . Addison Wesley Professional . etal.
3. Web site: Xindy - A Flexible Indexing System.