[XeTeX] Indexing Indic terms in Unicode, XeLaTeX

Yves Codet ycodet at club-internet.fr
Tue Mar 25 11:05:13 CET 2008


Hello,

The only solution seems to be Xindy if it runs on your platform, but  
I couldn't try it since, as most Mac users, I'm unable to compile it.

Best wishes,

Yves

Le 24 mars 08 à 20:56, TIMOTHY P. LIGHTHISER a écrit :

> Hello,
>
> I am hoping to learn how to make an index that displays words sorted
> in accordance with the Indic alphabet after having been input directly
> in Unicode.
>
> Yasuhiro Okazaki's SktSortKey program (below), which can still be
> used, works well with the old method of inputting accented characters
> (\={a}, \d{t}, etc.).
>
> Unfortunately, though, the SktSortKey program does not sort words in
> accordance with the Indic alphabet if the accented characters have
> been input directly in Unicode (ā, ḍ, etc.).
>
> In the Archives, Yves Codet brought this issue up (below)  in 2006.
> But, I do not believe a method was ever posted.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
>
>
> tl
>
>
>
> Yves Codet
> http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/xetex/2006-June/004041.html
> http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/xetex/2006-June/004058.html
>
>
> SktSortKey program (http://indology.info/links/soft/)  Yasuhiro
> Okazaki has developed a sort key generator for TeX index system. This
> assumes you are using LaTeX and the makeindex program. SktSortKey will
> process your index file so that it will be sorted into Sanskrit
> alphabetical order. The package includes a Mac Carbon executable file
> and source code which can be compiled on Unix or Windows OS.
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