LaTeX makeindex with gind.ist style combined with hyperref package

Question

Hello *,

I am currently having a problem with makeindex package and gind.ist style when combined with hyperref package with TeXnicCenter and LaTeX=>PDF conversion.

Without using gind.ist everything is fine, but as soon as I use gind.ist style I get lots of errors.

Did anybody face a similar problem and can suggest any solutions?

Alternatively, I need index with hyper references in PDF and explicit letter separation:

-- A --
a 10, 15, 178
abc 19, 20, 39
...

-- B -- ...

etc.

Thanks a lot for suggestions.

Ovanes.

P.S. Please don't suggest slutions like: "use xindy" without any examples or references how it can replace makeindex package.

Answer 1

Ok. I have found a solution to this point, just after posting it here:

I created a custom style file with .ist extension and put this content inside:

heading_prefix "{\\bfseries "      % insert in front of letter
heading_suffix "\\hfil}\\nopagebreak\n"  % append after letter
headings_flag  1                 % turn on headings(uppercase)

This code comes from this wiki page, which is offline but is cached by google.

Hope that will helps to others, since I spent some time to search for it.

Regards,
Ovanes