I was trying to make an index in latex export and found that it was very
difficult to make it work. I wonder if this could be simplified.
Here's what I had to do:
1. put \makeindex and \usepackage{makeidx} in latex export header [no
big deal]
2. put in \index commands (I don't /believe/ #+INDEX works, but I could
be wrong)
3. Put a \printindex in the end. [again, no big deal]
4. Modify the org-latex-to-pdf-process to
("pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o %f" "makeindex
-o %b.ind %b.idx" "pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory
%o %f" "pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o %f")
[This was /somewhat/ of a big deal. Suggest we add support for indexing
as a built-in option, like bibtex...]
5. The REAL big deal: edit my texmf.cf file to break the security
protection of openout_any=p. By default, makeindex will refuse to open
an absolute pathname. But org-mode will only pass absolute pathnames to
makeindex (AFAICT). Question: it seems like bibtex should suffer from
this same restriction. Has anyone had that problem with it?
Cheers,
r
