Hi Jean-Pierre,
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote:
>
> >> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 16:17:19 +0200 (CEST)
> >> From: "Stephan E. Schlierf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> To: LyX-Users Mailing-Liste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> Subject: Creating a german index revisited
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> a few weeks ago I asked whether somebody could help me with a problem that
> >> occured writing a manual.
> >> The Problem was to create a "german" index (that means an index that sorts
> >> german umlauts correctly).
>
> [snip]
>
> >> Stephan
> >>
> >>
>
>
> What about the @ separator:
> afoo@äfoo
> in the index entry popup puts the entry äfoo
> at the alphabetical location of afoo.
> A bit more lengthy than the style.ist hacking, but allows 8 bits
> input encoding and deals with any complicated tex construct
> (including math...that you must encode in TeX in the popup however).
You are right. I didn't know the @ separator (hm, hours and hours of
fumbling around seem to be senseless now :-).
> Useful also if you want to reflect a font style in the index.
Can you give me a hint how I can do this, say, have a word in small
capitals in the text and the index entry is also in small capitals ?
>
> Or perhaps I didn't understand the requirement ?
You understood it very well. The only advantage I see now working with a
style.ist is that you can modify the layout of the index a bit.
>
> Regards
>
> --
> Jean-Pierre
>
Regards
Stephan
