Producing an index

Longer documents, such as technical books, often contain an index. This is usually placed at the end of the document. It contains a list of words and the page numbers at which a reader can find them in the document. Such a list may contain key words, topics, or person's names.

How to do it...

Indexing may be done at the very end. Reading through the document, a command \index{keyword} should be placed for each place relevant to that key word. A good place can be right before the occurrence of that key word in the text. Don't leave a space between the \index{...} command and the indexed word.

We will use the makeidx package. We will now insert the indexing commands while writing by following these steps:

1. Start with a document class. We will use the same class that we used in the previous recipes:

   \documentclass[parskip=half]{scrartcl}

2. Load the makeidx package:

   \usepackage{makeidx}

3. Use the this command to generate the index:

   \makeindex

4. Begin the document:

   \begin{document}

5. Write the...