#! /bin/sh

 #

 #sedindex - shell script to create indexes, preprocessing LaTeX's .idx file

 #

 #  puts strings prefixed by * into \tt font

 #    terminator characters for strings are |!@{}

 #

 # a space terminates the \tt part to allow \index{*NE theorem}, etc.

 #

 # change *"X"Y"Z"W  to  "X"Y"Z"W@{\tt "X"Y"Z"W}

 # change *"X"Y"Z    to  "X"Y"Z@{\tt "X"Y"Z}

 # change *"X"Y      to  "X"Y@{\tt "X"Y}

 # change *"X        to  "X@{\tt "X}

 # change *IDENT  to  IDENT@{\tt IDENT}  

 #    where IDENT is any string not containing | ! or @

 # FOUR backslashes: to escape the shell AND sed

 sed -e "s~\*\(\".\".\".\".\)~\1@{\\\\tt \1}~g

 s~\*\(\".\".\".\)~\1@{\\\\tt \1}~g

 s~\*\(\".\".\)~\1@{\\\\tt \1}~g

 s~\*\(\".\)~\1@{\\\\tt \1}~g

 s~\*\([^ |!@{}][^ |!@{}]*\)~\1@{\\\\tt \1}~g" $1.idx | makeindex -c -q -o $1.ind