Adding an index to your document in Latex

Source code required:

• Include the package makeidx, e.g. \usepackage{makeidx}.
• Call \makeindex in your preamble.
• Add index to keywords where desired, e.g. \index{keyword}, \index{keyword!subkeyword},
• \index{keyword!subkeyword!subsubkeyword}.
• Call \printindex where your want the index to be generated (usually at the end of the document).

Compiling:

• Run latex on your main latex file, e.g. latex main.tex. This will create a main.idx file.
• Run makeindex on the index file, e.g. makeindex main.idx, to generate the index file main.ind.
• Run latex again on your main file, e.g. latex main.tex.

or

• Run texify on your main latex file (e.g. texify main.tex) to automatically do all the necessary steps outlined above (and more if necessary).

Example:

  \documentclass{book}
 \usepackage{index}

 \makeindex

 \begin{document}

 This is some very important text about
 Latex \index{latex}. Here is some more.

 \printindex

 \end{document}

References

1. Leslie Lamport, MakeIndex: An Index Processor For Latex, 1987.