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		MakeIndexk General Release Information

	Copyright (C) 1989 by Chen & Harrison International Systems, Inc.
	Copyright (C) 1988 by Olivetti Research Center
	Copyright (C) 1987 by Regents of the University of California

			Author: Pehong Chen

MakeIndex is a general purpose index processor written for use with
(La)TeX.

makeindex is currently maintained in TeX Live and many more people have
contributed changes.  This incarnation uses the kpathsea library.
Please send bug reports to tex-k@tug.org.

Documentation is in the TeX Live directory texmf-dist/doc/support/makeindex
and texmf/doc/man/man1/{make,mk}index.1.

Basic index styles are in texmf-dist/makeindex/base.

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Everyone should read COPYING before installing or distributing MakeIndex.

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The CONTRIB file lists the names of people who have contributed to
to this release, and the original author's acknowledgements.

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For a detailed discussion on the design of MakeIndex, please read

	Pehong Chen and Michael Harrison, ``Automating Index Preparation'',
	Tech. Report No. 87/347, Computer Science Division,
	University of California, Berkeley, March 1987.

A somewhat condensed version entitled

	``Index Preparation and Processing''

appears in Software: Practice and Experience, 18(9):897-915, September 1988.
