The following email contains a patch that will cause the latex export preprocessor to rewrite #+INDEX: lines in an org file into LaTeX style \index{} entries.
As far as I can tell, this should be The Right Thing --- latex doesn't seem to do anything bad if there are index entries without makeindex. So no downside. And it doesn't seem right to have to do #+INDEX for HTML export and #+LATEX: \index{} for latex export. I believe that this should be complemented by some additional code that would: 1. Add code to turn on and off index generation and appropriately add the makeindex package and the \makeindex 2. Possibly add code to turn /off/ this translation in the case where the user wishes to have HTML and Latex documents indexed differently. Cheers, r