Ernst Molitor writes: > just a few days ago, I came across the xindy package written by Roger Kehr and > available at > > ftp.th-darmstadt.de/pub/tex/src/xindy/... > > While I haven't really used xindy until now, from reading the docs, it seems to > offer a very sound and well-designed solution to many (maybe even next to all) > problems of index generation. It's a stand-alone program aiming at generating > indexes for a number of different types of documents, among them, of course, > those written in TeX or LaTeX, Is this, by chance, the system that you mention > in your posting as the one that Joachim Schrod is involved in? most likely this is (part of?) the outcome of that project, at least it lives on a server which makes it very likely that this is the case. > Please accept my thanks for your fascinating and extremely > important and useful work in the TeX/LaTeX arena. While I have no > formal education in any field related to EDP, yet "The LaTeX Companion" was > a most enjoyable book to read, a fact that, IMHO, clearly demonstrates > that the book must be counted among the few really good ones. Thank you! thanks a lot frank