[XeTeX] hypertext index

[Mike Maxwell]

On 3/8/2011 10:54 PM, Alan Munn wrote:
> On Mar 8, 2011, at 9:28 PM, Mike Maxwell wrote:
>
>> On 3/8/2011 9:01 PM, Alan Munn wrote:
>>> On Mar 8, 2011, at 8:42 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>>>> On Mar 8, 2011, at 6:49 PM, houda araj wrote:
>>>>> ... Is it possible to construct an hypertext index using
>>>>> latex or xelatex ? Any information on the subject is
>>>>> appreciated. Many thanks Houda
>>>>
>>>> Howdy, I think if you include the hyperref package
>>>> (\usepackage{hyperref}) that just happens. Put it as the last
>>>> package loaded.
>>>
>>> Not really with xelatex. For that you need xindy, but it has
>>> problems with hyperref.
>>
>> Umm, we've been using hyperref (without xindy) in xelatex and are
>> getting plenty of hyperlinks in our PDF, including to external
>> websites. At least I assume hyperref is what's giving us the
>> hyperlinks.  Isn't that what it's supposed to do?
>
> Yes.  hyperref isn't incompatible with xelatex; it's incompatible
> with xindy and xindy is really the only indexing system that is able
> to cope properly with unicode.  So although makeindex works fine with
> hyperref, if you are indexing anything other than English you really
> need something like xindy.

Ah, but I'm still confused.  Our index entries (created with makeindex, 
but not xindy) certainly contain non-ASCII Unicode characters (schwas, 
stacked diacritics...), and yet the page #s attached to those index 
entries seem to hyperlink just fine. Does the problem happen only if 
the hyperlinks themselves on the index terms contain non-ASCII 
characters? Like if we used Indic page numbers in our indices?
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