Answer by jldevezas for Is there an automatic process to create index creation?
I have just developed a set of tools to help me prepare the index for my PhD thesis. I believe this is a superior solution to the ones I have seen around here, despite its simplicity. We extract...
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An alternative would be to use detex and pipe that into a frequency-analyzing script:This will show a list of the word distribution (case-sensitive), with the most frequent words first:detex input.tex...
View ArticleAnswer by anon for Is there an automatic process to create index creation?
As a rough hack I sometimes use the following lines to get all my definitions in bold+italic, and put them in the index.\newcommand{\eb}[1]{{\itshape\bfseries#1}{\index{#1}}}\renewcommand{\emph}{\eb}
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I just wrote a quick python script to extract the most common words in some tex files. It uses detex to strip tex commands from the files, strips characters like ".", ",", ";", "?", "!" from the end of...
View ArticleAnswer by Giel for Is there an automatic process to create index creation?
You could use the glossaries package to suggest terms and acronyms for inclusion in an automatically generated glossary. It won't pick out words for inclusion on its own though, that might require a...
View ArticleAnswer by Sam Lichtenstein for Is there an automatic process to create index...
I suggest you look at the script make-index.py (and related files) in the scripts folder of the download page at the Stacks Project (http://www.math.columbia.edu/algebraic_geometry/stacks-git/). The...
View ArticleAnswer by Blake Stacey for Is there an automatic process to create index...
In addition to what Juan A. Navarro suggested, I'd say that words which occur in chapter and section titles are likely candidates for indexing. E.g., if section 2.3 is entitled "The Virasoro Algebra",...
View ArticleAnswer by Juan A. Navarro for Is there an automatic process to create index...
As others have mentioned, trying to automate this task would be close to impossible. But if you want to get some very rough hints of words for yourself, this is something I would try (note, requires...
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Certainly, there must be some way to somewhat create a list of words suggested to be included in an index.
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