[texhax] \index command to use my page numbers.

[Uwe Lueck]

"Ted Rolle Jr." <stercor at gmail.com>, 18.10.2010 01:54:12:
> I've scanned in some books and have marked their pages with a counter called `Page'.

What does this mean? Do you have each book page as an image on a TeX page, with \includegraphi..., together with \refstepcounter{Page}? Or what does "marked with a counter" mean?

Or are you working with OCR extracts from the book pages?

> TeX keeps this counter separate from `page'.
> I'd like for the \index command to pick up `Page' instead of 'page'.
> 
> \index seems to be in the depths of TeX. 

No, it's LaTeX code.

If you are stepping `Page' by \stepcounter or \refstepcounter, you could try 

  \makeatletter
    \def\@wrindex#1{%
     \protected at write\@indexfile{}%
     {\string\indexentry{#1}{\thePage}}%
     \endgroup
     \@esphack}
  \makeatother

This would replace `page' by `Page' in an underlying LaTeX command. 

This may fail when you use a third-party index package. 

Another idea would to have your own \Index command, about as follows: 

  \newcommand*{\Index}[1]{{\let\thepage\thePage\index{#1}}}

Or if you have a package redefining \index so it has an optional argument ... the usual hacking ... may depend on that package ...

Or can't you use `page' in place of `Page' by some proper \setcounter{page}{...} for each book or even each page?

Curious: 

    Uwe