Indexes

[Jan Batty]

Here's what I'm ultimately trying to accomplish. I have
written two manuals, and want to produce one index for the
two manuals, so I might get entries like the following in
the combined index:

Date Formats..........Dev1-258, Dev2-49

Where Dev1 and Dev2 represent two separate manuals with
their respective page numbers.

I thought maybe having one set up like the following:

{ XE "Date Formats" \e "Dev1" \l "-" }

would work, but it doesn't.

 

[Margaret Aldis]

Hi Jan

The workaround I used once for a similar requirement was to make the manual
title a particular level of sub index entry (So the fields were something
like { XE "Fieldsate formatsev1}, assuming I need two levels for the
index entries themselves.

This gives you the manual title in Index 3 style. For my purposes, that was
basically enough (I was using full manual title references and wanted them
on separate lines), but if you needed to do some more formatting or even
sorting you could probably find a macro solution once you have the
information in the index and tagged with the style name.