Jon <[email protected]> writes:
> I have been asked by the editor of The Indexer -- the academic journal
> of indexers worldwide -- to write a brief non-technical piece about
> indexing under Linux; and by 'indexing' here I mean creating the A-Z
> indexes found at the backs of books and journals.
As in, tools and technologies for creating them?
> My impression is that there is currently no specific Linux indexing
> software and no projects going on to create any, but because of the
> many meanings of 'index' it's hard to search the Web for this
> conclusively.
You would be wrong, I suspect. If nothing else, various TeX
implementations have been specifically designed (and used) for decades
for creating books, including indexing.
ConTeXt and LaTeX both have serious indexing support, and are designed
to make it easy to create good, well indexed content.
On the other hand, they run on all platforms ... and, heck, I have
trouble imagining how Linux is particularly relevant anyway.
I mean, does the software that generates an index from my source code,
doxygen, count? How about OpenOffice, which includes indexing features?
Regards,
Daniel
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