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# <SF>xindy</SF> Manual

## Roger Kehr

### Computer Science Department, Technical University of Darmstadt

and

## Joachim Schrod

### Joachim Schrod Net & Publication Consultance GmbH

$Revision: 1.19 $, $Date: 2004/05/24 21:43:16 $, for xindy version 2.2

This is the manual of the indexing system <SF>xindy</SF>. <SF>xindy</SF> is a powerful and flexible framework for generating indexes for many kinds of documents. This document describes the <SF>xindy</SF> processing model, terminology, and language, but not invocation and standard modules. The most up-to-date version can be obtained from the <SF>xindy</SF> Web Site at http://www.xindy.org/.

Index of all xindy commands

## 1. About this Manual

## 2. How the Index Processor Works

- 2.1 Data Flow
- 2.2 General Concepts and Terms

## 3. Command List

- 3.1 Processing Commands
- 3.2 Markup Commands
- 3.3 Raw Index Interface

## 4. Processing Phases

- 4.1 The Startup Phase
- 4.2 The Processing Phase
- 4.3 The Markup Phase

## 5. Index

## 6. References

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