Modifying index entries

All the index commands described in the previous section take an initial optional argument before the index term, which modify the index entry's meaning in various ways. You can specify only one of the following in any given command.

These work via MakeIndex's "encapsulation" feature. See section Customizing indexing, if you're not using the default characters for the MakeIndex operators. The other optional argument (specifying a subterm) is independent of these.

Here are the possibilities:

begin

end

These mark an index entry as the beginning or end of a range. The index entries must match exactly for MakeIndex to recognize them. Example:

\sidx[begin]{future}[Cohen, Leonard]
...
\sidx[end]{future}[Cohen, Leonard]

will typeset as something like

future,
  Cohen, Leonard, 65--94

see

This marks an index entry as pointing to another; the real index term is an additional (non-optional) argument to the command. Thus you can anticipate a term readers may wish to look up, yet which you have decided not to index. Example:

\sidx[see]{analysis}[archetypal]{archetypal criticism}

becomes

analysis,
  archetypal,  See archetypal criticism

seealso

Similar to see (the previous item), but also allows for normal index entries of the referencing term. Example:

\sidx[seealso]{archetypal criticism}[elements of]{dichotomies}

becomes

archetypal criticism,
  elements of, 75, 97, 114, See also dichotomies

(Aside for the academically curious: The archetypally critical book I took these dichotomous examples from is Laurence Berman's The Musical Image, which I happened to co-design and typeset.)

pagemarkup=cs

This puts \cs before the page number in the typeset index, thus allowing you to underline definitive entries, italicize examples, and the like. You do not precede the control sequence cs with a backslash. (That just leads to expansive difficulties.) Naturally it is up to you to define the control sequences you want to use. Example:

\def\defn#1{{\sl #1}}
\sidx[pagemarkeup=defn]{indexing}

becomes something like

indexing, \defn{75}