MakeIndex [SEP] programming language
MakeIndex
MakeIndex is a computer program which provides a sorted index from unsorted raw data. MakeIndex can process raw data output by various programs, however, it is generally used with LaTeX and troff.
MakeIndex was written around the year 1986 by Pehong Chen in the C programming language and is free software. Six pages of documentation titled "MakeIndex: An Index Processor for LaTeX" by Leslie Lamport are available on the web and dated "17 February 1987."
See also.
- xindy
References.
(accidentally kills himself while attempting to blow up the Royal Observatory, Greenwich)
- 9 April – Arthur Hill Hassall, physician, microbiologist and chemical analyst (born 1817) (dies in Sanremo)
- 23 May – Brian Houghton Hodgson, civil servant, ethnologist and naturalist (born 1800)
- 14 June – John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice (born 1820)
- 1 September – Boston Corbett, Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth