mkindex(1)

📦 version 2026.0, in alpine 3.24

💖 mkindex(1) 💖

✨ NAME ✨

okay so the name is mkindex, and it's a script that processes LaTeX index and glossary files 🧚

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mkindex BASENAME[.idx] ...

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay bestie, so mkindex runs makeindex(1) on any index (.idx) or glossary (.glo) files that get created when you TeX the file BASENAME.tex. it's giving automation 💅

✨ FILES ✨

  • gind.ist — the MakeIndex index style file 📚
  • gglo.ist — the MakeIndex glossary style file 🌸

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

makeindex(1) is your next stop if you want to go deeper 🫶

✨ BUGS ✨

⚠️ bestie, if you find a bug, email bug reports to <https://lists.tug.org/tex-k>. it's a public mailing list, so everyone can see it 🙈

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Written by Thomas Esser 👑

This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It's now maintained as part of TeX Live 🌈

that's the tea ☕ this page comes from TeX Live, version date 8 March 2022, and it's the mkindex(1) man page. love you, bye 🦋💜

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