With your instructions I can now generate a document with an index. Thanks.
However, I have one hitch. How do I generate an index with an entry that has
an “@“ symbol in it?
For example
#+index: @ terms
I’ve tried \@ and \verb{@} and several other ideas but once there is an @ sign,
no entry shows up. If I have “terms” instead of “@ terms” it works fine. The @
sign shows up OK in the body of the document, just not in an index.
Any suggestions?
> On May 12, 2019, at 2:21 PM, Fraga, Eric <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sunday, 12 May 2019 at 10:17, Robert Love wrote:
>> Can someone point to an example of using Org mode to generate a LaTeX
>> document with an index? I see the Org has section 13.1.8 Generating
>> an index. What is the means to turn that into LaTex with an index?
>> Do I have to use a project? Is there a simple example?
>
> That part of the manual is for publishing to HTML, not for creating a
> PDF via LaTeX.
>
> To generate an index for LaTeX, you add
>
> #+index: term
>
> lines to your org file.
>
> You need to have a couple of extra bits in your org file for LaTeX to
> know about creating an index. In particular, you need:
>
> #+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage{makeidx} \makeindex
>
> and then a \printindex statement somewhere in your org file (probably at
> the end) for the index to be generated.
>
> Once you have your org file the way you want it, you then need to use
> LaTeX itself to create the index. So:
>
> 1. export to LaTeX
> 2. run pdflatex on the LaTeX file
> 3. run it again just to make sure (sometimes 3 runs are needed...)
> 4. then run makeindex on the file (base name)
> 5. finally run pdflatex again (maybe twice)
>
> You can do all these steps from within Emacs. You can either visit the
> LaTeX file directly to execute steps 2-5 or you can modify
> org-latex-pdf-process (via file local variables, for instance) to insert
> the makeindex command.
>
> HTH.
> --
> Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.2.3-327-g3375f0
