[Tex/LaTex] How to have two or more distinct indexes

Question

I often want to have more than one index in a longer LaTeX document. For instance, I might want a general concept index, an index of named persons, and an index of symbolism. How can I have two or more distinct indexes in LaTeX?

Answer 1

The multind package provides simple and straightforward multiple indexing.

You tag each \makeindex, \index and \printindex command with a file name, and indexing commands are written to (or read from) the name with the appropriate (.idx or .ind) extension appended. To create a “general” and an “authors” index, one might write:

\usepackage{multind}
\makeindex{general}
\makeindex{authors}
...
\index{authors}{Another Idiot}
...
\index{general}{FAQs}
...
\printindex{general}{General index}
\printindex{authors}{Author index}

To complete the job, run LaTeX on your file enough times that labels, etc., are stable, and then execute the commands

makeindex general
makeindex authors

See also this FAQ: Multiple indexes

Update

multind is a package for LaTeX 2.09

Consider the following alternatives:

• index
• splitindex
• imakeidx
• the memoir class has its own multiple-index functionality