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ID	57🔗
Submitted by:	Denis Bitouzé
Date:	2022-04-01 12:36:58
Last update:	2025-02-04 18:07:54
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Category	glossaries-extra
Summary	Allow xindex as external tools for generating the associated glossary files

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Description

xindex ( https://ctan.org/pkg/xindex ) is a Lua unicode aware program for creating an index file. It would be nice to allow this tool for generating the associated glossary files, just as makeindex and xindy.

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This is something I’ve already looked into but I haven’t been able to work out how to convert the custom makeindex style file into an equivalent xindex cfg file.

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🔗Comment from Denis Bitouzé
Date: 2025-02-04 13:34:24

Hi Nicola. You said “I haven’t been able to work out how to convert the custom makeindex style file into an equivalent xindex cfg file”. Could you elaborate what custom makeindex style you are talking about?

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🔗Comment from Nicola Talbot 🦜
Date: 2025-02-04 14:11:38
Repying to: Denis Bitouzé 2025-02-04 13:34:24

The .ist file created by \makeglossaries. Particularly how to change the "actual chararacter" symbol.

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🔗Comment from Nicola Talbot 🦜
Date: 2025-02-04 18:07:54

For the record, the glossaries package isn't the only one to have a custom makeindex style file. Just search through TEXMF/makeindex (e.g /usr/local/texlive/2024/texmf-dist/makeindex/). Any indexing application that wants to be a drop-in replacement for makeindex not only needs to be able to parse the syntax created with commands like \index but also needs to be able to read makeindex style files.

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