Derivatives and Integrals: An Annotated Discourse

There is an index manufactured at the end of the back matter. So we are talking about it here, rather than within the index, which is an impossibility. It contains some sample entries, and is not meant to be comprehensive. Look at the source of this XML file, searching on <idx>, to see how they are written. They may be placed inside of a a variety of structures, and their location greatly influences the cross-references produced in the HTML version of the index.

The LaTeX version of the index is more traditional, using page numbers to reference locations. A newer package is used to create the index, and so there is no extra intermediate step required to process the index. The one downside of this convenience is that index entries may not be placed in the back colophon (which is the only subdivision that may follow the index).

There is an index entry about multicolumn lists which spans more than one page. This requires doubly-linked index entries, the first has the index content and points to the xml:id of the second. The second is an empty element, but points back to the xml:id of the first entry. So each has a marker and a reference, which allows the span of the index topic to cut across XML boundaries in the source. This is the mechanism to produce a page range in the LaTeX index. See the source of this article for syntax details.