[XeTeX] hypertext index

[Alan Munn]

On Mar 9, 2011, at 12:08 PM, houda araj wrote:

> Thanks you all.
> 
> What I want is to make the word google clickable not the page.
> Suppose we have an index with word appearing only once.
> 
> index
> google
> altavista
> ask jeeves
> etc.
> 
> I may look into glossary instead of index ?

Yes. Then check out the glossaries package.  It sounds like its much better suited to what you want. It is very well documented.

Alan

> 
> Houda
> 
> > Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 17:31:41 +0100
> > From: Susan.Dittmar at gmx.de
> > To: xetex at tug.org
> > Subject: Re: [XeTeX] hypertext index
> > 
> > Dear Houda,
> > 
> > 
> > Quoting houda araj (h_araj at hotmail.com):
> > > What is the syntax to make every word in the index clickable so one can navigate from index words to the text ?
> > > 
> > > Should we put instruction before each word in the index ?
> > > 
> > > \hyperlink{\index}{Google} Recherche de \hyperlink{\index}{blogs} est l'application de la \hyperlink{\index}{technologie de recherche} Google aux blogs. Google est un fervent défenseur du mouvement d'auto-publication que représentent les blogs. Nous espérons que Google Recherche de blogs aidera nos utilisateurs.
> > 
> > It's rather
> > 
> > Google\index}{Google} Recherche de blogs\index{blog} est l'application de
> > la technologie de recherche\index{technologie de recherche} Google aux
> > blogs. [...]
> > 
> > The \index{text} command marks a place on the page (I do not remember if
> > you better choose the end or the beginning of the word or phrase you really
> > want marked), and saves its page number together with the word 'text'
> > (which does not need to be the same as the printed word!). Those lines
> > (text plus page number) are written to a special file, which then can be
> > processed (sorted, and entries for the same text combined) by makeindex or
> > one of its sibling programs. This program's output then can be included in
> > the next (Xe)(La)TeX run. The word (text) won't be klickable, but with
> > hypertext the page numbers should be.
> > 
> > The \hyperlink command works in the opposite direction. It makes the word
> > (in place) klickable and points *away* from there, whereas the \index
> > command creates something that points *towards* the place where that
> > command was used.
> > 
> > Hope that helps,
> > 
> > Susan
> > 
> > 
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