Hi Kamal, On 25/10/2010, at 6:05 AM, Kamal Abdali wrote:
> Thanks, Ross, for your effort to tame makeindex for the Arabic script. > > I also came across an interesting Persian sample that uses xepersian and > makeindex. The pdf and tex source are at > http://www.parsilatex.com/joomla/attachments/vahid-seminar.pdf > http://www.parsilatex.com/joomla/attachments/vahid-seminar.tex > Missing some of the source components, I couldn't reproduce the pdf exactly. > But lo and behold, the index was generated without fuss and in the desired > order of entries. I am still mystified why the letters are disconnected in > the text, but that's another debugging chore. The \index entries in that document result in the following kinds of line within the .idx file: \indexentry{$ \uparrow \left\lbrace x\right\rbrace $|hyperpage}{3} \indexentry{قی�...@کران بالا|hyperpage}{3} This is another way to apply a macro to the page-number; in this case \hyperpage is applied, due to the 'pagebackref' option when hyperref is loaded. It is done by a redefinition of the \index command, or of a LaTeX internal that it calls. The arabic page numbering must be due to the font that is being used, with a language setting. This is because XeTeX just receives the numbers as ordinary western digits, but is outputting in the Hex range x01d0 --> x01d9 . The font "XB Niloofar" is accompanied by CMap bfrange transformations, as follows: <01D0> <01D2> <0661> <01D3> <01D5> <06F4> <01D6> <01D8> <0667> These map into the arabic-indic digits part of Unicode. Thus Copy/Paste from the PDF recovers the digits in this form. > Kamal Abdali Hope this helps, Ross ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ross Moore ross.mo...@mq.edu.au Mathematics Department office: E7A-419 Macquarie University tel: +61 (0)2 9850 8955 Sydney, Australia 2109 fax: +61 (0)2 9850 8114 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
