Re: word list for document index

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer@icfo.es>]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 04:59:36 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> * Kushal Kumaran [070412 04:42]:
> > On 4/12/07, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> >> I wish to add an index to documents I am writing.  I am using
> >> XEmacs and LaTeX.
> > 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.
> 
> 
> I thank you, Kushal.  I forgot about the TeX FAQ.  
> 
> I am using multi-columns, so dvi2tty is not suitable, but catdvi with
> the --sequential option works.
> 
> The TeX FAQ provided a link to a complete delatex archive, so perhaps
> I can get delatex running; it appears to be a much better solution.

Try "detex -w somefile.tex" to get the word list. Detex processes \input
and \include commands automatically and it can deal with both plain TeX
and LaTeX source files. Detex is included in texlive-extra-utils.

-- 
Regards,
          Florian