I'm pleased to announce a new version of tex2xindy. Tex2xindy is a converter from TeX's .idx file to the raw index file format needed by xindy. New: - converts characters in ^^xx hex notation into 8-bit characters. I implemented this because old versions of TeX (TeX 3.14159/Web2C 7.0 and before) would output this notation to the .idx file (if the index.sty package is used) whereas new TeX (Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)) already outputs the 8-bit characters. - converts ^^^^xxxx and ^^^^^^^^xxxxxxxx hex notation into UTF-8 byte sequences. Useful for Omega (hopefully). Has no effect for TeX users. - handles multi-line index entries properly. - you can now redefine all the definitions, e.g. ENCAP \| ACTUAL @ ESCAPE \\ LEVEL ! IS : QUOTE \" to contain other rules than just one character (also QUOTE). For example, if you mix input files from different authors which use different characters to denote a sublevel (let's say, ',' and '!') you can define LEVEL [,!] in the tex2xindy.l source to recognize any of those characters as the 'level' character. The source and a precompiled Windows 32-bit executable is available here: http://rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~thenlich/tex/xindy/tex2xindy/ Have fun! -- Thomas Henlich