Re: word list for document index

["Kushal Kumaran" <kushal.kumaran+debian@gmail.com>]

On 4/12/07, Russell L. Harris <rlharris@oplink.net> wrote:
> I wish to add an index to documents I am writing.  I am using XEmacs
> and LaTeX.
>
> It appears that makeindex is obsolescent and has been superseded by
> xindy, so I plan to use xindy.
>
> >From an article titled "MakeIndex: An Index Processor for LaTeX",
> written by Leslie Lamport (17 February 1987), it appears that the
> first step is to create an alphabetical list of every word in the
> document, with duplicates removed.  Lamport recommends use of the
> commands:
>
>     delatex myfile.tex | sort -uf > foo
>
> It would appear that delatex purges from the file all the LaTeX
> commands.
>
> <snipped detailed query on converting latex to plain text>

Have you seen the TeX FAQ?  The section
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=toascii might help.

catdvi is at least packaged for debian.  I haven't checked the others.
--
Kushal