LaTeX: improve docs of 'printindex' and 'makeindex' #8851
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| generate the index differently, append some content after the index, or | ||
| change the font. As LaTeX uses two-column mode for the index it is | ||
| often advisable to set this key to | ||
| ``'\\footnotesize\\raggedright\\printindex'``. Or, to obtain a one-column |
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The jsbook.cls does this automatically, but not the ujbook.cls used with uplatex. As uplatex will be default at next major release I did not add this information. But note that the switch to uplatex has the after effect that index for Japanese document does not use \footnotesize setting... so the advice here might be useful to Japanese users in future :)
| change the font. As LaTeX uses two-column mode for the index it is | ||
| often advisable to set this key to | ||
| ``'\\footnotesize\\raggedright\\printindex'``. Or, to obtain a one-column | ||
| index, use ``'\\def\\twocolumn[#1]{#1}\\printindex'`` (this trick may fail |
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This trick works with our default 'manual' and 'howto' also with Japanese, but for the latter either with 'howto' or with uplatex. With platex and 'manual' (jsbook.cls) it will not work because since #8779 (support for hlist directive) we load multicol package and jsbook.cls in that case does not use \twocolumn macro in theindex environment.
I figured it was not worthwile adding these details as anyhow uplatex will soon be default.
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I figured it was not worthwile adding these details as anyhow uplatex will soon be default.
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| @@ -527,7 +538,6 @@ Keys that are set by other options and therefore should not be overridden are: | |||
| ``'title'`` | |||
| ``'release'`` | |||
| ``'author'`` | |||
| ``'makeindex'`` | |||
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I have searched througout our files and I see no reason why this 'makeindex' was said to be set by other options. There may have been some confusion with the makeindex step which uses mendex with Japanese class, or it was right in the past, but something changed.
| change the font. As LaTeX uses two-column mode for the index it is | ||
| often advisable to set this key to | ||
| ``'\\footnotesize\\raggedright\\printindex'``. Or, to obtain a one-column | ||
| index, use ``'\\def\\twocolumn[#1]{#1}\\printindex'`` (this trick may fail |
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I figured it was not worthwile adding these details as anyhow uplatex will soon be default.
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Merging, thanks! |
Closes #8055