Re: Single column index?

[Steve Litt]

On Monday 05 March 2007 20:47, curtis osterhoudt wrote:
> Hi, Steve,
>
>     I haven't tried it yet for single-column mode (I use it for *forcing* a
> 3-columned index), but the package "multicol"
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/multicol.html might
> work for you. In my preamble, I have the following:
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> % Index is 3 columns, with bold letter headers
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> \usepackage{multicol}
> \newcommand\NrCol{3}
> \renewenvironment{theindex}{%
> \columnseprule \z@
> \columnsep 35\p@
> \section*{\indexname}%
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> \begin{multicols}{\NrCol}%
> \thispagestyle{plain}\parindent\z@
> \parskip\z@ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> }{\clearpage\end{multicols}}
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
>    I suspect this could be adapted to your case, though I'm not entirely
> sure how.
>
>           Best wishes!
>
>                    Curtis O.

Thanks Curtis,

The multicol package made no difference, nor did it make a difference when I 
used your code above. However, you gave me an idea.

I grep searched for the source code for \theindex, found it, modified it, and 
put it in my layout file. My \theindex code looks like this:

\renewenvironment{theindex}{%
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                {\MakeUppercase\indexname}%
        \thispagestyle{plain}%
        \parindent\z@
        \parskip\z@ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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        \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\indexname}
}{%
        \clearpage
}


The \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\indexname} is Rich Shepard's suggested way 
of getting the index in the table of contents. It puts it in, showing the 
right page number, but unfortunately when you click on it in the .pdf, you go 
to the prior chapter instead of the index. So I have a little more debugging 
to do, but the basics are done. Thank you!

I've spent this entire day indexing and solving index problems. It's some of 
the most distasteful work I've done -- I had more fun back when I dug 
ditches. I feel like I've worked in the sewers all day. Eeeuuuuuu!

But anyway, it's done. Thanks to all of you on the list who have been so 
helpful. Here's a .pdf of my finished index...

Thanks

SteveT

index.pdf
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