On Mar 8, 2011, at 11:04 PM, Mike Maxwell wrote: > 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?
I'm no expert on this, so I'd best stop while I'm ahead. Does makeindex sort non-English things properly without resorting to special devices in the index entries? Anyway, there is no problem as far as I know with hyperref and makeindex; the problems with makeindex are related to its ability to deal easily with non-English sort orders. -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex