Rich Shepard wrote:
> I found a paragraph in the "Extended Features" doc on making an index and
> I've scanned 'man makeindex'. Both of these describe marking words in the
> document for inclusion in the index and setting nesting levels and other
> physical layout/formatting issues.
>
> However, I find nothing on how to add cross references to the index ("See
> also ...") or references to concepts that are not explicitly found in the
> text body ("See ..."). We've all tried to find something in a book's index
> but our word for the concept is different from that of the indexer so we
> either don't find it or we need to hunt sequentially in the index to see if
> it's there.
I take it that \index{Rich Sheppard|see{Sheppard, Rich}} is not what you want,
since this is described in man makeindex as well as in the makeindex
documentation and in The LaTeX Companion 2.
IIRC "See also" (i.e. page number + crossref) is not possible with makeindex.
xindy (a successor of makeindex) has something like this, but I think it does
not work (yet) with LaTeX.
> I've never before compiled an index but I will need to do so for my book
> as soon as I get the text to the publisher. That's at the end of this
> month. So I'm trying to get a head start on the indexing process by
> learning how to add to what LyX/LaTeX does automagically for me.
>
> BTW, any suggestions, guidelines or offers to help by those with
> experience in indexing technical manuscripts will be greatly welcomed.
Read The Companion. It also describes xindy, which is much more powerful than
makeindex, and, as of the latest release, even usable.
Jürgen
> TIA,
>
> Rich
