[OS X TeX] Still Struggling with Indexes

[Sam Bradley]

Herb and Alan, thank you so much.  Your explanations did the job.  It had been so many years since I had used LaTeX that I hod forgotten the MakeIndex step.  Indexing of my larger project now works great.  Thank you again for your prompt response and assistance.  This entire mailing list is truly a great resource.  Take care.  Sam.....

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Sam Bradley
Vicksburg, MS
sam.bradley at me.com




On Dec 16, 2009, at 6:23 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

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> On Dec 16, 2009, at 5:52 PM, Sam Bradley wrote:
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>> Folks, I am still having problems generating indexes.  I have attached a minimal example tex source file as well as resulting log and idx files.  If my minimal example works for all of you and not me, then I am left feeling that my recent MacTeX-2009 installation did not install correctly.  If there is some specific program/utility that should be present on my system, I will be happy to search for its existence. Thanks.  Sam.....
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>> <TestIndexing.tex><TestIndexing.idx><TestIndexing.log>
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>> Sam Bradley
>> Vicksburg, MS
>> sam.bradley at me.com
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> Howdy,
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> Ummm... did you ever run makeindex? It compiled fine here.
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> If you're using TeXShop you can enable engines that use latexmk which will automatically run (xe/pdf)latex then bibtex and/or makeindex and finally (xe/pdf)latex as many times necessary to resolve all cross-references (with a final run through dvips and ps2pdf if you're running latex).
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> Go to ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/Inactive/Latexmk/ and see the instructions for activation and use. Basically, once the engines are activated, you use them by picking the engine name from the pop-up menu on the toolbar of the source or preview window or, better, by putting the line
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> % !TEX TS-program = pdflatexmk
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> to run latexmk compiling with pdflatex (use xelatexmk to use xelatex and latexmk to use latex).
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> I simply put the line above at the top of the file you sent and then simply typeset (Cmd-T). It ran pdflatex, makeindex and the pdflatex one more time to generate the index. On more complicated documents it will run other programs and maybe multiple runs of pdflatex.
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> Good Luck,
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> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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