[OS X TeX] xindy problem

[Robert Voogdgeert]

Op 26-jun-04 om 16:13 heeft Maarten Sneep het volgende geschreven:

> On 26 jun 2004, at 16:02, Robert Voogdgeert wrote:
>
>> Op 26-jun-04 om 13:08 heeft Maarten Sneep het volgende geschreven:
>>
>>> On 26 jun 2004, at 12:41, Robert Voogdgeert wrote:
>>>
>>>> After installing xindy in the way described at their website. I get 
>>>> `command not found' in the terminal when I try to use it. 
>>>> Apparently I did something wrong. Does any of you know what to do?
>>>
>>> Where did you find those instructions? --- because there is no 
>>> pre-packaged binary distribution for Mac OS X, the build 
>>> instructions of xindy are somewhat convoluted. What did you do? More 
>>> details are needed to even start to get an answer.
>>
>> As you can see I'm quite ignorant when it comes to matters like this. 
>> I thought I had actually installed Xindy. But I only got the files 
>> (xindy, tex2xindy, makeindexsh) in usr/local/bin in the way described 
>> in the doc at their site.
>> If you could tell me how to procede I'd be helped.
>
> Trouble is, no one really knows, although I think that Piet van 
> Oostrum mentioned he had it running. It most certainly is not easy to 
> get it to run. If you do have access to another computer that is 
> supported, that is probably easier (by far). Any reason not to use the 
> old, but already installed, makeindex?
>
> Maarten
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Maarten,

I need to process a lot of complicated patterns like bible verses, 
passages from the Dead Sea Scrolls like 4Q394f.ii:3--4; 6--10 and the 
like. Can I do this with makeindex?

Greetings,
Robert.

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