Producing an index
Longer documents, such as technical books, often contain an index. This is usually placed at the end of the document. It contains a list of words and the page numbers at which a reader can find them in the document. Such a list may contain key words, topics, or person's names.
How to do it...
Indexing may be done at the very end. Reading through the document, a command \index{keyword} should be placed for each place relevant to that key word. A good place can be right before the occurrence of that key word in the text. Don't leave a space between the \index{...} command and the indexed word.
We will use the makeidx package. We will now insert the indexing commands while writing by following these steps:
- Start with a document class. ...
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