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From: walter@hpsadle.HP.COM (Walter Coole)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: AMSTex, is it discussed?
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Date: 17 Oct 90 03:32:19 GMT
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The texindex package, although it is intended for LaTeX, is fairly
flexible and could be used with a variety of text processors, even
(gasp!) non-TeX ones.  I'm not familiar with AMSTeX, but I've used
texindex with plain TeX satisfactorily.  When you say "automatically",
do you mean "without my having to type index-specific stuff in my
document", eg. \index{keyword} ?  If so, the current state of the art
may be disappointing; most indexing packages assume you're willing to
so identify the phrases to be indexed.  I have a makefile that takes a
list of words (not) to be indexed and wraps \index{} around the words
to be indexed, but this isn't as good as a human-produced one, but it
may serve as a starting point for one.