Index entries for latex?

[gwilym]

Apologies if I've missed this somewhere else - I'm new to
multimarkdown & the forum.

Is there some multimarkdown syntax that will generate index entries
when converted to latex? The glossary syntax seems quite neat, but I'd
like to be able to generate an index as well.

Thanks,

Gwilym

[Fletcher T. Penney]

There's not. Really, what needs to exist is a tool to look at word
frequencies, compared to a list of words that should not be indexed, and
generate an index that way.

I've looked around a few times, and there seem to be some commercial
products, but nothing open source....

But not really an issue for MMD per se.

F-

On 8/13/09 7:02 PM, gwilym wrote:
>
> Apologies if I've missed this somewhere else - I'm new to

> multimarkdown& the forum.

>
> Is there some multimarkdown syntax that will generate index entries
> when converted to latex? The glossary syntax seems quite neat, but I'd
> like to be able to generate an index as well.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gwilym

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[gwilym]

Sorry, I didn't explain myself clearly. Automatic index generation
would be good, but I was wondering if, for manual index creation,
there's a multimarkdown syntax that can output latex like:

\index{foo}, \index{foo!bar}, \index{foo|see{bar}} etc.

in the same way that

[^glossaryfootnote]: glossary: term (optional sort key)
The actual definition belongs on a new line, and can continue on
just as other footnotes.

translates to a latex glossary command. Or is this best written in raw
latex in the text if needed?

-G

On Aug 14, 2:38 am, "Fletcher T. Penney" <fletcher.pen...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> There's not.  Really, what needs to exist is a tool to look at word
> frequencies, compared to a list of words that should not be indexed, and
> generate an index that way.
>
> I've looked around a few times, and there seem to be some commercial
> products, but nothing open source....
>
> But not really an issue for MMD per se.
>
> F-
>
> On 8/13/09 7:02 PM, gwilym wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Apologies if I've missed this somewhere else - I'm new to
> > multimarkdown&  the forum.
>
> > Is there some multimarkdown syntax that will generate index entries
> > when converted to latex? The glossary syntax seems quite neat, but I'd
> > like to be able to generate an index as well.
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Gwilym
> > >
> --

> Fletcher T. Penney
> fletcher.pen...@gmail.com

>
> A good scapegoat is nearly as welcome as a solution to the problem.
>

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[Fletcher T. Penney]

I didn't mean to take your question off on a tangent.

My answer meant to imply:

1) There is no current syntax for indexing in MMD

2) I think a tool should exist that would help create an index automatically

3) In no way did I mean to imply that an automatic index would be of the
same quality as one generated by a person (or better yet, a true
professional)

The idea of indexing has come up before - it's not a feature I am likely
to add to MMD myself, but welcome ideas from others. Honestly, I would
be more inclined to devote some energy to linking to MMD to a good
indexing tool, if one existed that was free/open source. But since I
generate HTML (designed for viewing on a computer) or PDF (which I also
primarily use on a computer), it doesn't make much sense to devote time
to indexing when I can simply run a search on the full text....

The closest I have come was automatically generating an index of first
lines for a poetry book that was published through lulu.com

F-

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