MakeIndex, Nomenclature, Glossaries and Acronyms ⇒ Alphabetical order of listed words

[pleasehelpme]

Hi!

I write in German and for some reason the index starts with "Überschuldung" and then continues with "Abgrenzung" [...] "Aktiengesellschaft" and so forth.

How can I get the alphabetical order of words right?

best regards,
Christoph

[localghost]

I'm afraid that the only way to get the right ordering is to type the "Ü" for the index entry in the old fashioned way.

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Überschuldung\index{"Uberschuldung}

At the moment I'm not aware of any other solution.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[nlct]

Alternatively, you can use Xindy instead of makeindex. Xindy has different sorting algorithms for different languages and can sort accented or non-latin characters. It is, however, more complicated than makeindex.

Regards
Nicola Talbot

[phi]

For many simple applications, the xindy wrapper texindy can be used as a drop-in replacement for makeindex. For example, I'm using texindy --language german-din file.idx, without any problems. xindy should be included in current TeX Live distributions.

[localghost]

Alternatively, you can use Xindy instead of makeindex. […]

Now I am aware of an alternative. But there may be a problem.

There is neither a xindy distribution for Windows nor for Mac OS X. We would like to have one, but nobody has done the port yet.

So, at the moment this software seems to be reserved for Linux users.

[phi]

So, at the moment this software seems to be reserved for Linux users.

There are builds of xindy for Windows and OS X included in TeX Live 2008. Apparently the team managed to build it. I didn't test this, though.

[localghost]

There are builds of xindy for Windows and OS X included in TeX Live 2008. […]

That's very promising. I guess I'll switch to TeX Live 2008 as my new LaTeX distribution under Windows on my new notebook. My Linux system comes already with the current TeX Live distribution. So, nearly everything ready for testing.