47.7 LaTeX Indexing

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Index entries can be added to the LaTeX source document with \index{}.

To obtain a see:

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...

To have the index included in the resulting file be sure to include the following toward the end of the document:

\clearemptydoublepage
\lfoot{}\rfoot{}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Index}
\printindex             

When processing the file the sequence of commands will include makeindex amongst the pdflatex commands, to then view the resulting pdf file with evince:

$ pdflatex mydoc.tex
$ makeindex mydoc
$ pdflatex mydoc.tex
$ pdflatex mydoc.tex
$ evince mydoc.pdf

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