[I'm CC'ing this to the list - I hope it's ok]
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001, Yehuda Pinchover wrote about "makeindex in Hebrew LaTeX":
> Shalom Nadav,
> Thanks for your reply. Still I have two problems.
>
> I used your hebrew.ist and I got the numbers correct. But the items are
> not according to the Hebrew Alphabet.
>
> Also, before I run
> makeindex -s hebrew.ist
>
> I must replace in filename.idx the string {\@@number {x}} by {x}, where
> x stands for the page number.
>
> Do you have a solution for these two problems?
>
> Yehuda
It worked perfectly for me, but that was LaTeX 2.09, not LaTeX 2e, and a lot
of other water passed under the bridge since. I'm afraid I won't be able to
know more without trying it for myself and seeing what's wrong.
But I have some hunches:
1. About the \@@number problem: if I remember correctly, makeindex *insists*
that the page numbers on filename.idx should be actual numbers and not have
various tex formatting on them. I bet you don't see this \@@number when
typesetting in English. I suspect that this \@@number is part of the LaTeX
2e Hebrew support, in which case this part was done wrong: the idx file
must be output bare integers. In my version of the LaTeX 2.09 support, I
did this correctly, but I have no idea about Boris's LaTeX 2e support.
As an ad-hoc solution, you can run a simple sed script to get rid of the
\@@number, e.g., (I didn't test it:)
sed 's/\\@@number {\([0-9]*\)}/\1/g' < filename.idx > filename.new.idx
mv filename.new.idx filename.idex
2. When I used it, it did sort correctly according to the Hebrew alphabet.
Maybe it has something to do with the "oldcode" encoding now used in
the common LaTeX 2e support? I used "newcode".
ftp://ftp.ivrix.org.il/pub/ivrix/src/cmdline/tex/report.ps.gz
contains a section about how I used makeindex (it also contains an
index at the end so you can see how it works very nicely!).
By the way, I have no idea if Boris's Hebrew support also does two-column
correctly (i.e., the first column is the right, the second is the left)
when in Hebrew mode - the original LaTeX 2.09 didn't, and I added this (and
many other things) in my version. Again, see the aforementioned report.ps.gz
for a nice example of an index.
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