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xindy Manual

Roger Kehr

Computer Science Department, Technical University of Darmstadt

and

Joachim Schrod

Joachim Schrod Net & Publication Consultance GmbH

$Revision: 1.19 $, $Date: 2004/05/24 21:43:16 $, for xindy version 2.2

This is the manual of the indexing system xindy. xindy is a powerful and flexible framework for generating indexes for many kinds of documents. This document describes the xindy processing model, terminology, and language, but not invocation and standard modules. The most up-to-date version can be obtained from the xindy Web Site at http://www.xindy.org/.

Index of all xindy commands

1. About this Manual

2. How the Index Processor Works

2.1 Data Flow
2.2 General Concepts and Terms

3. Command List

3.1 Processing Commands
3.2 Markup Commands
3.3 Raw Index Interface

4. Processing Phases

4.1 The Startup Phase
4.2 The Processing Phase
4.3 The Markup Phase

5. Index

6. References

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