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From: jtc@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (J.T. Conklin)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: LaTeX Indexing
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Date: 8 Jun 90 18:47:25 GMT
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I have just finished the Administrator's Guide for our product, but
need help with creating an index before I can send it off to the
printers.

I have set up macros like \code{}, and \file{}, which format the text
in boldfacs and slant to give the reader visual cues about the nature
(program or datafile) of what is being discussed in the text.

	\newcommand{\code}[1]{{\bf #1}}

I then tried adding an \index{} in the \code{} definition, since we
want the reader to be able to find the location of discussion about
one of the programs in our package in the index.

	\newcommand{\code}[1]{{\bf #1}\index{#1}}

This works fine, except that some of the \code{} macros start sentances,
and that Capitalized entry is indexed.  I tried using \lowercase{},
but it isn't evaluated until the index is printed.

	\newcommand{\code}[1]{{\bf #1}\index{\lowercase{#1}}}

I looked all through the TeXbook and the LaTeXbook, and didn't find
something like \eval{}, so I'm kind of stuck.  I sent out our drafts
by hand editing the *.idx file, but I don't want to have to do that
all the time.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you,

	--jtc