<ix> – index entry

Attributes:

sortkey

sorting key

kind

"emph", "bold", "italic", "start" or "end"

xml:lang

human language (inherited)

Possible Contents: (Text | inline element (except footnote, cross reference, and index entry) | ix2)*

Description: One index entry. There mustn't be more than one <ix2> element within <ix>, and that must come last.

You don't have to watch out for special characters. Everything is escaped if necessary. Most Latin letters with diacritic symbols are sorted properly.

The optional <ix2> contains the sub-entry, i.e. the second level. To sum it up, the old MakeIndex commad

\index{S"anger!Twopac@2~Pac|emph}

looks in tbook like this:

     <ix kind="emph">Sänger<ix2 sortkey="Twopac">2 Pac</ix2></ix>