mendex --- Index processor

The program mendex is a general purpose hierarchical index generator. It is almost compatible with makeindex, and additional features for Japanese (handling readings of kanji words etc.) are also available.

Features

See manual mendex.1 in roff format.

History

mendex is originally developed by ASCII Corporation and ASCII Media Works, Inc.

The source codes are currently maintained in TeX Live and GitHub repositories. Following features are added by Japanese TeX Development Community:

• option -U: Set input/output character encoding to UTF-8.
• option -I enc: Set internal character encoding to enc.
• option --help: Show summary of options.
• option --version: Show version information.
• option --: Arguments after -- are not taken as options.

About mendex-doc package

The mendex-doc package provides documentation for mendex. Source code of the program is not included in it.

Repository

The bundle is maintained on GitHub: https://github.com/texjporg/tex-jp-build (sources), and https://github.com/texjporg/mendex-doc (documents).

If you have any issues, please let us know from the above page or by e-mail issue@texjp.org.

License

The package may be distributed and/or modified under the terms of the 3-clause BSD license (see LICENSE).

Release Date

$RELEASEDATE

Japanese TeX Development Community