1.12.2 Making Index Entries

<..configure ooffice latex..>+
 \catcode‘\!=13
 \HAssign\indexmark:N = 0
 \immediate\openin15=\jobname.4ix
 \ifeof15 \else
    \Configure{wrindex}
      {{\special{t4ht@(}\catcode‘\\=0 \catcode‘\{=1
        \catcode‘\}=2 \catcode‘\ =10 \catcode‘\!=13
        \def!{\c:indexmark\def!{\d:indexmark\def!{\string!}}}%
        \gHAdvance\indexmark:N by 1
        \def\indexmark##1##2{%
           \ifnum \indexmark:N=##2 \special{t4ht@)}\a:indexmark
               ##1\b:indexmark\special{t4ht@(}\fi}%
        \hbox{\input \jobname.4ix \special{t4ht@)}}%
      }}
 \fi
 \catcode‘\!=12
 \NewConfigure{indexmark}{4}
 \Configure{indexmark}
    {\HCode{<text:alphabetical-index-mark\Hnewline
                                        text:id="dx\last:haddr"
                                        text:string-value="}%
     \NoFonts}
    {\EndNoFonts \HCode{"  />}}
    {\HCode{" text:key1="}}
    {\HCode{" text:key2="}}
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<..configure ooffice latex..>+
 \pend:def\index{\leavevmode}
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The following two sample codes provide different behavior.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}  
\usepackage{makeidx}  
\makeindex  
\begin{document}  
\index{Hola: Hallo} Hola  
\printindex  
\end{document}

\documentclass{article}  
\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}  
\usepackage{makeidx}  
\makeindex  
 
\begin{document}  
\begin{itemize}  
\item \index{blabla} blabla  
\item blabla  
\end{itemize}  
\end{document}